EDITORIAL: Censoring Social Media...for Adults

On Friday, April 14 Montana became the first American state to ban TikTok after the Montana House of Representatives voted 54-43 to ban TikTok from all personal smartphones and tech devices within the state.

SB419 is not in effect quite yet, as it must be signed by Gianforte. However, Gianforte has previously banned TikTok from all state-owned official government devices; in January of this year, he publicly urged the Montana University System to follow suit with their own administrative TikTok ban for official educational devices — which it did.

This new law as passed would prohibit TikTok fr...