U.S. Lawmakers are discussing a TikTok ban? What's the point of banning TikTok? Some say the app is a threat to democracy. But what the freedom of speech? Is the TikTok ban really just an attempt by those in power to silence dissenting voices? Or is TikTok really a threat to democracy? We'll consider all this with some help from John Milton's classic work on the freedom of speech: Areopagitica.

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