A law requiring TikTok’s Chinese parent ByteDance to sell the app by Jan. 19 or face a total US ban was upheld in US appeals court on Friday – setting up a potential Supreme Court showdown between …
to sell the app by Jan. 19 or face a total US banby TikTok’s lawyers that the law, which received overwhelming bipartisan support in Congress and was signed by President Biden in April, was unconstitutional and a violation of free speech.
“The Supreme Court has an established historical record of protecting Americans’ right to free speech, and we expect they will do just that on this important constitutional issue,” TikTok said in a statement. “What we have finally done is found a path forward with respect to regulating tech in a responsible, thoughtful way,” said Joel Thayer, a DC-based tech policy lawyer and outspoken TikTok critic.
“It’s farcical to suggest that with this two billion lines of code – 40 times as big as the entire Windows operating system, changed 1,000 times every day – that somehow we’re going to detect that they’ve changed it,” DOJ attorney Daniel Tenny said at the time.
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