The Supreme Court is expected to rule on the impending ban of TikTok in the coming days. The deadline for the app to decide its future is Sunday, when it will be effectively banned in the U.S. unless its China-based owner sells itself to an American buyer or the Supreme Court overturns the law. Legal experts anticipate the court will allow the ban, though justices have indicated openness to less drastic measures.
on the impending ban in the coming days with the deadline for the popular app to make a decision on what its future holds coming on Sunday.
If the Supreme Court does not overturn the ban, TikTok will be left with few options — sell itself to a U.S. investor, shut it down orTikTok will effectively shut down Trump has flipped his position on a ban of TikTok after trying to force it out of the U.S. during his first administration via executive order. He has even filed a brief with the Supreme Court asking it to put a temporary stay on the law so he could negotiate a sale or another arrangement to keep it available for Americans.
“If the service providers don't , they can be fined a lot of money. It's $5,000 per user of the app — even if that particular service provider has fewer than 170 million through their service — but still, it's going to be huge,” said Nancy Costello, clinical professor of law at Michigan State University and the director for the First Amendment Clinic and the Free Expression Online Library and Resource Center.
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