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In one of the most important cases of the social media age, free speech and national security collide at the Supreme Court on Friday in arguments over the unless the Supreme Court strikes down or otherwise delays the effective date of a law aimed at forcing TikTok’s sale by its Chinese parent company.It’s unclear if the court will take the Republican president-elect’s views — a highly unusual attempt to influence a case — into account.
“Rarely if ever has the court confronted a free-speech case that matters to so many people,” lawyers for the users and content creators wrote. The Biden administration, defending the law that President Joe Biden signed in April after it was approved by wide bipartisan majorities in Congress, contends that “no one can seriously dispute that control of TikTok through ByteDance represents a grave threat to national security.”Officials say Chinese authorities can compel ByteDance to hand over information on TikTok’s US patrons or use the platform to spread or suppress information.
Adding to the tension, the court is hearing arguments just nine days before the law is supposed to take effect and 10 days before a new administration takes office.In language typically seen in a campaign ad rather than a legal brief, lawyers for Trump have called on the court to temporarily prevent the TikTok ban from going into effect but refrain from a definitive resolution.
But they also said that a shutdown of just a month would cause TikTok to lose about one-third of its daily users in the US and significant advertising revenue.Under the most searching review, strict scrutiny, laws almost always fail. But two judges on the appellate court that upheld the law said it would be the rare exception that could withstand strict scrutiny.
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