When the Supreme Court upheld a law that banned TikTok from the US, it seemed well aware that its ruling could resonate far beyond one app. The justices delivered an unsigned opinion with a quote from Justice Felix Frankfurter from 1944: “in considering the application of established legal rules to the ‘totally new problems’ raised by the airplane and radio,
The Supreme Court unanimously found the new law that could lead to a ban of TikTok does not violate the First Amendment rights of the platform or its users.
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In an unsigned opinion, the Court sided with the national security concerns about TikTok rather than the First Amendment rights. There were no noted dissents.
The Supreme Court has unanimously upheld the federal law banning TikTok beginning Sunday unless it’s sold by its China-based parent company.
The app had more than 170 million monthly users in the U.S. The black-out is the result of a law forcing the service offline unless it sheds its ties to ByteDance, its China-based parent company.
TikTok, ByteDance and several users of the app sued to halt the ban, arguing it would suppress free speech for the millions of Americans who use the platform.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday unanimously upheld a law passed in Congress that bans TikTok, which could lead to 3.7 million users in Michigan losing the use of the app as soon as Sunday. The court's decision shifts focus to President-elect Donald Trump, who still can intervene after he is sworn into office on Monday.
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The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision could come Friday in the case about whether TikTok must shut down in a few days under a federal law that seeks to force its sale by the Chinese company that owns the social media platform.
The Supreme Court has cleared the way for TikTok to be banned in the United States on Sunday, ruling that a policy aiming to force the app to change owners does not violate free speech protections. Friday’s decision is a per curiam ruling, meaning that it’s attributed to the Supreme Court as a whole, rather than a group of individual justices.