I know you were on the other side Ryan, but as the Court wrote it up how is this not a big win for privacy? The Court is emphatically recognizing data collection harms in a way it hadn’t before, and doing so unanimously.
It resoundingly rejects the premise that regulating data collection is regulating speech. I’ll give you that. But Congress is shutting down (not fining) a communications platform over potential abuses.
I totally get that perspective, though Congress did give the platform some time to find a domestic buyer. But the Court’s rationale creates lots of room to restrict data collection by any entity based on the realistic prospect of data transfers to overseas adversaries (or hacks / breaches).
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