U.S. Supreme Court to consider TikTok bid to halt ban
The U.S. Supreme Court announced Wednesday that it will hear TikTok and its Chinese parent company ByteDance’s challenge to a law requiring the sale of the app by January 19th or face a national security-based ban.
Reuters:
The justices did not immediately act on an emergency request by TikTok and ByteDance, as well as by some of its users who post content on the social media platform, for an injunction to halt the looming ban, opting instead to hear arguments on the matter on Jan. 10.
The challengers are appealing a lower court’s ruling that upheld the law.
TikTok and ByteDance asked the Supreme Court on Dec. 16 to pause the law, which they said violates free speech protections under the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment… The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in Washington on Dec. 6 rejected the First Amendment arguments by the companies.
In its decision, the D.C. Circuit wrote, “The First Amendment exists to protect free speech in the United States. Here the government acted solely to protect that freedom from a foreign adversary nation and to limit that adversary’s ability to gather data on people in the United States.”
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