A supporter holds a TikTok sign after a press conference outside the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, March 12, 2024, in Washington, DC.
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TikTok asked on Monday. supreme court Have until January 19th to block legislation that could effectively ban popular social media apps in the United States.
On the same day, President-elect Donald Trump met with TikTok CEO Sho Zhi Chu at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida, NBC News reported. Confirmed.
TikTok wants the Supreme Court to first consider an appeal against the law, which would require Chinese owner ByteDance to sell or be forced to sell the app by that date. google and apple Stop supporting TikTok on US platforms
The request came three days after the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., declined to delay the effectiveness of a ruling upholding the Protecting Americans from Regulatory Applications by Foreign Adversaries Act.
In its decision, the appeals court cited national security concerns raised by lawmakers who supported the law.
Asked about a possible ban, President Trump told reporters early Monday that he would “look at TikTok.”
“You know, I have a warm spot for TikTok,” Trump said, referring to his campaign performance among young voters in November.
Trump tried to ban the app during his first term in the White House and said during the recent campaign that he would oppose the law passed by Congress and signed by President Joe Biden.
“Congress has enacted massive and unprecedented restrictions on speech,” TikTok’s lawyers wrote in a request to the Supreme Court on Monday. It’s one of those places.”
The company’s lawyers argued there was a “strong public interest” in having the Supreme Court review the appeals court’s decision upholding the law at issue.
“This legislation would shut down one of America’s most popular speech platforms the day before the presidential inauguration,” the filing said. “This, in turn, will silence the voices of applicants and many Americans who use this platform to communicate about politics, commerce, the arts, and other matters of public interest.”
“The Supreme Court has a well-established track record of upholding Americans’ right to free speech,” TikTok Policy said in a statement posted on its social media account X.
“Today, we are asking the court to do what it traditionally does in free speech cases: apply the strictest scrutiny to speech bans and conclude that they violate the First Amendment,” the statement said. I ask you to do so.”
The same post states that if TikTok were banned, small businesses using the app would lose more than $1 billion in revenue in just one month, and creators would lose nearly $300 million in revenue in just one month. He said that
