TikTok is appealing to the Supreme Court to overturn a federal law that could effectively ban the app in the US. The company argues the law violates free speech rights and cites a 'strong public interest' in the Supreme Court's review.
TikTok will ask the Supreme Court to overturn a federal appeals court ruling which upheld the law targeting the app on the grounds of national security concerns. TikTok asked the Supreme Court to block a law that would effectively ban the social media app in the United States by Jan. 19 if its Chinese owner ByteDance does not sell the company. On the same day, President-elect Donald Trump met with TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew at Trump's Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida.
The request came three days after the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., refused to delay the effect of its ruling upholding the law, the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act. The appeals court in that ruling cited national security concerns raised by members of Congress who backed the law. 'You know, I have a warm spot in my heart for Tiktok,' Trump said, pointing to his electoral performance among young voters in November. Trump in his first term in the White House tried to ban the app, but during the recent campaign said he opposed the law passed by Congress and signed by President Joe Biden. In its request Monday to the Supreme Court, TikTok's lawyers wrote, 'Congress has enacted a massive and unprecedented speech restriction. TikTok is an online platform that is one of the Nation's most popular and important venues for communication.' The company's attorneys argued there is a 'strong public interest' in having the Supreme Court review the appeals court ruling upholding the law in question. 'The Act will shutter one of America's most popular speech platforms the day before a presidential inauguration,' the filing sai
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