U.S. Supreme Court agrees to hear challenge to TikTok ban

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Posted on 12/23/2024 5:47:02 AM PST by MinorityRepublican

The Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to hear arguments that a law that would effectively ban TikTok if its parent company does not sell the popular social media app violates the U.S. Constitution's free speech protections.

The Supreme Court scheduled oral arguments in the case for Jan. 10. That is nine days before the law targeting the app, which is used by an estimated 170 million Americans, is set to take effect.

The law would require TikTok's Chinese parent company, ByteDance, to sell the app or force Google, Apple, and other platforms to stop supporting the app in the United States.

Congress passed the law, the Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, due to concerns that TikTok's Chinese ownership presented a national security risk.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld the law on Dec. 6, ruling that the DOJ had "offered persuasive evidence demonstrating that" the divestment law "is narrowly tailored to protect national security."

The Supreme Court on Wednesday said it would hear challenges to the law filed jointly by TikTok and ByteDance, as well as by a group of TikTok users.

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