10/01/2025 19:47
The Guardian
Justices weighed importance of security with freedom of speech in oral arguments that went over nearly an hourHow would a TikTok ban work?The US supreme court heard oral arguments over the fate of TikTok on Friday, questioning TikTok’s lawyer far longer than the attorney for the government. It’s the latest battle in the long war over whether to ban the tremendously popular social media app in the US – and the justices will now make a decision that weighs the importance of national security with the freedom of speech. Justices appeared skeptical of TikTok’s case and seemed inclined to uphold the law that will either ban the app or force its parent company to sell.TikTok and its parent company, Chinese-based ByteDance, asked the supreme court to review the case after a lower court ruled last month to uphold a law to ban the app in the US. That ban is scheduled to go into effect on 19 January, unless ByteDance sells TikTok’s assets to a non-Chinese company. While ByteDance has the option to divest, it claimed in a legal filing that divestiture “is simply not possible: not commercially, not technologically, not legally”. Continue reading...
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