Supreme Court unanimously upholds TikTok ban
The app has until Sunday to sell to a non-Chinese owner or be banned in the US.
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The Supreme Court has announced a unanimous ruling to uphold a law banning TikTok on Sunday, January 19, if the app does not sell to a non-Chinese owner by then, citing national security concerns.
TikTok, owned by ByteDance, could lose its 170 million American followers, including seven million of which use the app for business reasons, if it doesn’t meet the law’s ultimatum.
Although all nine justices voted to uphold the ban, conservative justice Neil Gorsuch noted the short time justices were given to decide the case, and liberal justice Sonia Sotomayor noted she didn’t always share the majority’s opinion.
The Supreme Court concurred that a TikTok ban is not an infringement on First Amendment rights, and that the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act will prevent China from collecting potentially harmful data on American users.
This story first appeared on PRWeek U.S.
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