TikTok’s last stand: Supreme Court hears arguments over potential ban

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TikTok has conscionable complete a week earlier it’s forced to either abstracted from its Chinese genitor institution ByteDance aliases functionally cease operations successful the US. An appeals tribunal upheld a divest-or-ban law, but the Supreme Court offers 1 last chance for the institution and its users to make their case. The tribunal is expected to rumor a determination quickly aft its January 10th oral arguments connected whether to astatine slightest temporarily artifact the law.

President Joe Biden signed the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act — which passed pinch bipartisan support — past year, but it will return effect conscionable 1 time earlier he hands powerfulness to President-elect Donald Trump, who has made predominant but nebulous promises to debar a ban. Trump filed a astonishment brief urging the Supreme Court to hold enforcement until he could agent a woody — though it’s unclear if the Chinese authorities would o.k. one.

• The TikTok prohibition Supreme Court arguments commencement successful 30 minutes.

  The Supreme Court will perceive oral arguments from TikTok, a group of TikTok users, and the US authorities earlier deciding whether to artifact a rule that will otherwise return effect connected January 19th. You tin perceive connected C-Span aliases the Supreme Court’s site, starting astatine 10AM ET.

  
  

• TikTok has written to creators astir tomorrow’s Supreme Court hearing.

  “While we do not person circumstantial connected erstwhile the tribunal will make its ruling, you tin beryllium assured that we will beryllium transparent connected the adjacent steps arsenic soon arsenic we person a decision,” writes TikTok’s Kim Farrell, according to a screenshot of a connection shared by Andru Edwards.

  
  

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  What it will return for TikTok to past successful the US

  

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  TikTok has conscionable 10 days until it faces a imaginable prohibition successful the US. If the Supreme Court declines to halt the rule earlier January 19th, and TikTok isn’t spun disconnected from its Chinese genitor institution ByteDance, companies for illustration Apple and Google will beryllium forced to extremity maintaining the app successful their app stores aliases letting it push updates. 

  The app’s destiny will apt look clearer aft Friday, erstwhile TikTok and the DOJ are slated to coming oral arguments to the Supreme Court complete whether the rule that could prohibition TikTok violates the First Amendment. The tribunal declined to extremity the timepiece anterior to oral arguments, but near unfastened the anticipation of granting a region aft proceeding from some sides. 

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