President-elect Donald Trump told reporters “I have a warm spot in my heart for Tiktok.”
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.
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.met with TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew at Trump's Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida, NBC News confirmed.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.
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 PresidentIn 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 Act will shutter one of America's most popular speech platforms the day before a presidential inauguration," the filing said."This, in turn, will silence the speech of Applicants and the many Americans who use the platform to communicate about politics, commerce, arts, and other matters of public concern."
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