To be honest, I’m not surprised that the US Supreme Court is going to hear an appeal from TikTok to stop it from being banned in the US:
The country’s highest court set oral arguments in the case for Friday, January 10, just nine days ahead of the looming deadline on January 19.
It comes after Congress passed a law earlier this year banning TikTok unless its Chinese parent company ByteDance sells its stakes by the deadline.
Lawmakers were responding to warnings that the wildly popular social media app is a national security concern with the collection of Americans’ data.
But some 170 million Americans use the video app.
Now the Supreme Court will decide whether the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, which would ban TikTok, violates the First Amendment.
Both TikTok and the Justice Department were directed to file briefs before 5pm ET on Friday, December 27.
Will it succeed? Well, I am not a lawyer so I don’t know. But YouTube channel Legal Eagle who is an actual lawyer suggests that Congress has the right to ban TikTok for national security reasons and the courts have tended to steer clear of national security issues in the past. Which is likely why TikTok is going with the First Amendment option as they will argue that a ban violates the free speech of Americans. And there’s the Donald Trump factor. In the past he’s been anti TikTok. But he’s said that he may stop a ban of the social media platform. So who knows where this will go. All I know is that we’re in the endgame now.
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US Supreme Court To Hear Last Ditch Attempt By TikTok To Stay Alive In The US
To be honest, I’m not surprised that the US Supreme Court is going to hear an appeal from TikTok to stop it from being banned in the US:
The country’s highest court set oral arguments in the case for Friday, January 10, just nine days ahead of the looming deadline on January 19.
It comes after Congress passed a law earlier this year banning TikTok unless its Chinese parent company ByteDance sells its stakes by the deadline.
Lawmakers were responding to warnings that the wildly popular social media app is a national security concern with the collection of Americans’ data.
But some 170 million Americans use the video app.
Now the Supreme Court will decide whether the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, which would ban TikTok, violates the First Amendment.
Both TikTok and the Justice Department were directed to file briefs before 5pm ET on Friday, December 27.
Will it succeed? Well, I am not a lawyer so I don’t know. But YouTube channel Legal Eagle who is an actual lawyer suggests that Congress has the right to ban TikTok for national security reasons and the courts have tended to steer clear of national security issues in the past. Which is likely why TikTok is going with the First Amendment option as they will argue that a ban violates the free speech of Americans. And there’s the Donald Trump factor. In the past he’s been anti TikTok. But he’s said that he may stop a ban of the social media platform. So who knows where this will go. All I know is that we’re in the endgame now.
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