the supreme court China-based ByteDance has backed the law requiring it to divest its ownership of TikTok by Sunday or later Effective ban From the popular social video application in the United States
ByteDance has so far refused to sell TikTok, which means many US users can Lose access To the application this weekend. The app may still work for those who already have TikTok on their phones, though ByteDance has also threatened to shut down the app.
The Supreme Court sided with the Biden administration, upholding the Protecting Americans from Controlled Foreign Requests Act, which the president passed Joe Biden I fell In April.
Under the terms of the law, third-party Internet service providers like… apple and Google They will be penalized for supporting ByteDance-owned TikTok after the January 19 deadline.
If ISPs and app store owners comply, they will remove TikTok from their app stores, preventing users from downloading TikTok or installing the necessary updates that make the app work.
The fate of Tik Tok In the United States it now lies in the hands of the president-elect Donald Trumpwhich in December he asked Supreme Court to Stop implementing the law and allowing his administration “the opportunity to pursue a political solution to the issues raised in this case.”
Trump will be inaugurated on Monday, one day after the TikTok sale deadline. TikTok CEO Xu Qiu He is one of many technology leaders He is expected to be presentsitting on the podium.
In December, members of the CPC Select Committee met with the House of Representatives I sent messages to Apple CEO Tim Cook and Google CEO Sundar Pichai as they urged the executives to start preparing to comply with the law and reminded them of their duties as App Store operators.
last friday, The Supreme Court heard oral arguments From lawyers representing TikTok, content creators, and the US government. TikTok's lead lawyer, Noel Francisco, said the law violates the First Amendment rights of the app's 170 million American users. Meanwhile, US Attorney Elizabeth Prelogar responded that the app's alleged ties to the People's Republic of China via parent company ByteDance pose a national security threat.
After the oral arguments concluded, many legal experts believed the country's highest court appeared more supportive of the US government's case regarding TikTok's alleged questionable ties to the Chinese government.
Many TikTok creators ask their fans to find them on competing social media platforms like Google's YouTube, Facebook's Meta, Instagram, and CNBC. I mentioned. Additionally, Instagram leaders scheduled meetings after last Friday's Supreme Court hearing to direct workers to prepare for a wave of users if the court upholds the law, the CNBC report said.
Chinese social media app and TikTok-like app RedNote has risen to the top from Apple's App Store on Monday, suggesting that millions of TikTok users were looking for alternatives.
The Chinese government also weighed a Emergency plan That would see Elon Musk take over TikTok's US operations as part of several options aimed at preventing the app from being effectively banned in the US, Bloomberg News reported. I mentioned on monday. The report said the plan was one of several the Chinese government was considering as part of larger discussions that include working with the incoming Trump White House.
He watches: SCOTUS hears TikTok ban case.
