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The law would cut TikTok from U.S. app stores and hosting services before the Jan. 19 deadline, unless it cuts ties with its China-based parent company, ByteDance.
The Supreme Court showed the possibility of uploading this law. Listen to the arguments In TikTok’s legal challenge last week, judges were sympathetic to the government’s claims that China could use TikTok to collect data on its US users and spy on them.
Noel Francisco, who argued on behalf of TikTok and ByteDance, said the potential Supreme Court decision is “hugely consequential” for the platform’s 170 million users in the U.S. and their free speech rights.
If the law isn’t suspended or repealed by Sunday, “we go into the dark,” Francisco said last week. “The platform shuts down,” he said later, clarifying that TikTok would no longer be available in US app stores.
Solicitor General Elizabeth Preluger said the “unprecedented amount” of personal data collected by TikTok would give the Chinese government “a powerful tool for harassment, recruitment and espionage.” He cited several data breaches the U.S. has attributed to China over the past decade, including a hack of the Office of Personnel Management that compromised the personal information of millions of federal employees.
“For years, the Chinese government has tried to create detailed profiles about Americans, where we live and work, who our friends and associates are, what our interests are and what our vices are,” Pregoler said.
In April, Congress quickly passed bipartisan legislation, known to Americans as the Anti-Foreign Controlled Applications Act, as part of the foreign aid package, and was signed by President Biden. were It gave TikTok nine months to sever ties with its Beijing-based parent company, ByteDance, with the possibility of a 90-day extension if sales continued by the January deadline. Without the sale, TikTok loses access to app stores and web hosting services in the US.
The law will take effect one day before President-elect Donald Trump is sworn in. Trump, who tried to ban the app during his first term over national security concerns, has since said he wants to “protect” the app and credits it with winning over younger voters. I help him.
“We will take steps to prevent TikTok from going dark,” Mike Waltz, Trump’s incoming national security adviser, told Fox News’ “Fox & Friends” on Thursday. “It’s been a great platform for him and his campaign.”
Some legislators are also pushing for a delay in the implementation of the law. Two Democratic senators said Thursday they had sent a letter to Mr. Biden urging him to move to delay the measure for another 90 days, despite no apparent sale. is not
“It’s time to take a breather, try to step back, buy some time, try to rationalize it. But we shouldn’t let TikTok go into the dark by any means,” said Sen. Ed Markey, Democrat of Massachusetts. said on Thursday. “It’s just going to be devastating with so many small businesses, so many creators, so many communities with no alternatives available.”
Lawmakers and intelligence agencies have long been suspicious of the app’s ties to China, and have argued that those concerns are warranted because China’s national security laws allow organizations to collect intelligence. Collaborating is required.
TikTok and ByteDance filed. A legal challenge In May, the law was called an “extraordinary and unconstitutional assertion of power” based on “speculative and analytically flawed concerns about data security and content manipulation” that affect millions of Americans. Will suppress speech.
A federal appeals court issued a ruling in December that upheld the law, saying the U.S. government had “no more than a duty to protect that liberty from a hostile foreign nation and from that adversary to people in the United States.” acted to limit its ability to collect data.” A week later the Court of Appeal Refused TikTok’s bid to delay the implementation of the law, pending in the Supreme Court.
TikTok on December 16 asked The Supreme Court asked for a temporary stay saying it would suffer “immediate irreparable harm” if the High Court did not delay the ban. Two days later, the Supreme Court said it would challenge the law under an accelerated timeline.
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