In a Hail Mary to save its future in the United States, TikTok convinced the Supreme Court to hear its case.
FILE - Devotees of TikTok gather at the Capitol in Washington, as the House passed a bill that would lead to a nationwide ban of the popular video app if its China-based owner doesn't sell, on March 13, 2024.
An unprecedented clash between Silicon Valley, Congress and the incoming president has Americans looking up from their phones and turning their attention to the Supreme Court.Last Spring, with broad bipartisan consensus, the majority of lawmakers in Congress and President Joe Biden created the Protecting Americans' Data From Foreign Adversaries Act, which in part, requires TikTok to be sold from its Chinese parent company ByteDance by January 19 or be banned in the United States.
“We don’t want to get rid of TikTok. We just want the ownership not to be in the hands of a nation that is an adversary," said Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., who now serves as the vice chairman of the Intelligence Committee, formerly the chairman."Congress’s unprecedented attempt to single out Petitioners and bar them from operating one of the Nation’s most significant speech venues is profoundly unconstitutional," TikTok's counsel wrote in their“Particularly the D.C.
During his first term, Trump supported a TikTok ban. He later reversed course while feuding with other social media companies, concerned a“For all of those that want to save TikTok in America, vote for Trump," he said in a September post on his Truth Social platform.
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