[Eugene Volokh] Montana TikTok Ban Likely Violates First Amendment, Intrudes on Federal Foreign Affairs Power

Judge Donald Molloy's opinion Thursday in Alario v. Knudsen (D. Mont.) preliminarily enjoined Montana's ban on TikTok, which the state had defended largely on the theory that TikTok was owned by a Chinese corporation and "gathers significant information from its users, accessing data against their will to share with the People's Republic of China," which…