Here’s the explanation of the title of this story. Oral arguments were held in the US Supreme Court on Friday, and it didn’t go well for TikTok:
A majority of the Supreme Court appeared likely to uphold a controversial ban on TikTok over concerns about its ties to China, with justices lobbing pointed questions at lawyers for the social media app and a group of its content creators.
During more than two hours of oral arguments, many of the justices appeared to view the sell-or-ban law approved by Congress in April not as one that primarily implicates the First Amendment but rather as an effort to regulate the potential foreign control of an app used by 170 million Americans.
Here’s where the “maybe” part comes in:
But even if the court upholds the ban, there remains considerable uncertainty around the app’s accessibility in the Trump administration. Trump has said he wants to save TikTok and the law gives him wide latitude on enforcement.
Keep in mind that in the past, Trump has wanted to do the very thing that this law does. Which is force TikTok to be sold to American interests or be shut down. Now he’s flip flopped. You have to wonder if he owes favours or money to the Chinese or something because that’s as big of a 180 as I have ever seen.
Stay tuned to this story was we’re clearly in the endgame and we’re about to see how this plays out…. Finally.
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TikTok Is Basically Done In The US…. Maybe
Here’s the explanation of the title of this story. Oral arguments were held in the US Supreme Court on Friday, and it didn’t go well for TikTok:
A majority of the Supreme Court appeared likely to uphold a controversial ban on TikTok over concerns about its ties to China, with justices lobbing pointed questions at lawyers for the social media app and a group of its content creators.
During more than two hours of oral arguments, many of the justices appeared to view the sell-or-ban law approved by Congress in April not as one that primarily implicates the First Amendment but rather as an effort to regulate the potential foreign control of an app used by 170 million Americans.
Here’s where the “maybe” part comes in:
But even if the court upholds the ban, there remains considerable uncertainty around the app’s accessibility in the Trump administration. Trump has said he wants to save TikTok and the law gives him wide latitude on enforcement.
Keep in mind that in the past, Trump has wanted to do the very thing that this law does. Which is force TikTok to be sold to American interests or be shut down. Now he’s flip flopped. You have to wonder if he owes favours or money to the Chinese or something because that’s as big of a 180 as I have ever seen.
Stay tuned to this story was we’re clearly in the endgame and we’re about to see how this plays out…. Finally.
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