nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/1e216745a9899c40 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 250206s2025||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/1e216745a9899c40 doi eng 342 23 Mazzotti, Paolo Author aut Ceci n’est pas un Ban? - The Turn to Symbolism in the TikTok Saga Mazzotti, Paolo Verfassungsblog 2025-02-06 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier On 19th January 2025, the ‘Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act’ became operative in the USA in respect of TikTok, routinely (but somehow deceptively) referred to as ‘TikTok ban’. I will not deal in detail here with the saga (which readers of this blog are already familiar with), but with the misalignment between legal form and political narrative: A vaguely formulated statute became a symbolical proxy for principled confrontation over the underlying values. CC BY-SA 4.0 Free Speech Public Discourse TikTok TikTok USA USA. Supreme Court United States (DE-588)1243555017 gnd TikTok (DE-588)35650-5 gnd USA. Supreme Court Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/tiktok-ban-symbolism/ raw object