Stefan Mileschin

Didn’t think the amendment through

Montana Governor Greg Gianforte, 62, appears to be trying to ban social media with an ill-thought-out "amendatory veto" of the state's unconstitutional "ban TikTok" legislation.

Gianforte revised the law proposing alternative draft language that inadvertently could ban all social media platforms in the state.

The revised language targets any social media application that collects personal information and provides it to a foreign adversary. It sounds fair enough, but it appears that Gianforte did not know that most social media networks collect such information and share it with entities in foreign countries, it would effectively ban all social media in Montana.

First Amendment lawyer Ari Cohn said Gianforte did not understand that the term “personal information” was so broad that you could land a 747 on it.

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