OAN’s Elizabeth Volberding
5:45 PM – Tuesday, December 12, 2023
A United States judge upheld Texas’s prohibition of the well-known video application, TikTok, on state-owned devices or networks.
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In a Monday order, a federal judge upheld a Texas law that forbids the use of TikTok on state-owned devices and networks.
U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman refused a lawsuit introduced by the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, which asserted that the Texas rule breached the First Amendment by banning the use of TikTok on public university Wi-Fi.
“While the Court recognizes the importance both of protecting academic freedom and supporting public employees’ right to free speech, the Court finds that these important ideals do not dictate…
