The TikTok Case This Week Could Open the Floodgates to Even More Corporate Influence on the Media

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : Restrictions targeting foreign government involvement in domestic politics are taken for granted as a feature of sovereignty across the globe.
50% : Driven by fears that foreign adversaries might use radio to influence policy, Congress passed the Federal Radio Act, which authorized the precursor to the FCC to license radio companies, and added a 20 percent limit on foreign stockholding to the restrictions from the 1912 Act.
49% : The founding fathers embedded restrictions on foreign governmental interference in our constitutional structure.
47% : The emergency petition was brought by TikTok, asking the court to temporarily block enforcement of the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act (PAFACA).
47% : The second, in an opinion by Justice Powell -- with a fierce dissent by that well-known radical William Rehnquist -- concluded that members of the public had the right to hear political persuasion by banking corporations, and so states couldn't ban corporate speech around referendums.

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