WASHINGTON β The Supreme Court heard arguments Friday over whether TikTok can be banned in the U.S. later this month in a case pitting two major issues β freedom of speech and national security β against each other.
At the end of two and a half hours of questions, the justices appeared ready to uphold a law requiring TikTok's Chinese parent company to sell off its U.S. business or face a ban.
Some of the 170 million Americans who use TikTok say the court has never confronted a free speech case that matters to so many people.
The Biden administration defended the law, saying the wildly popular short-form video app is a grave threat because China can use it to gather data on Americans or manipulate content to shape U.S. opinion.
Lawyers for TikTok and for a group of TikTok creators argued Friday the law deprives users of their preferred digital publisher, infringing on the right to free expression. Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar said that as long as TikTok is owned by China-based ByteDance, U.S. national security is at risk.
Unless the high court intervenes, Google, Apple and internet providers won't be allowed to make TikTok available after Jan. 19.
meanwhile apps like facebook are meant to specifically gather data and the fbi has the info of everyone on social media, i bet you thats true on each of the fbi's children given to Beelzebub this life and the next, ON GOD! AMEN! I SPEAK! BEELZEBUB WILL LOOK AFTER THOSE CHIDLREN BETTER THAN MANIPULATED FBI AMEN, IF THATS NOT TRUE MAY GOD STRIKE ME DOWN WITH LIGHTNJNG AS I SPEAK THIS AMEN! IN JESUS NAME I SPEAK!
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lmaooo the first amendment doesn't give you a right to "your preferred digital publisher" frick off lol
this whole thing is particularly funny to me bc of how r-slurred the chink laws are, like we should just ban it on principle and refuse to allow it until china lets US companies operate there
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