On December 27, 2024, The Future of Free Speech joined the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, Institute for Justice, Reason Foundation, and several other civil liberties organizations in an amicus curiae (friend of the court) brief in urging the Supreme Court to overturn the law banning TikTok.
The brief argues that the national ban on the app would be the first time in history our government has proposed prohibiting an entire medium of communication.
The brief states:
Download“Allowing the TikTok ban to stand would mark an unprecedented departure from our longstanding commitment to free speech exceptionalism, which sets the United States apart not only from authoritarian states but also other democracies that mandate significant government regulation of online speech, such as the European Union and Germany. It would undermine the principles enshrined in the First Amendment and signal a troubling shift, aligning the United States with regimes that stifle their citizens’ freedom to share and access information and ideas.”