Supreme Court will determine whether Tiktok’s fate as a deadline for US prohibition strategies

Washington DC – The Supreme Court is to hear TiktokAppeal on Friday by a law that would force its Chinese owner to sell the very popular video sharing platform or turn it off.

The Supreme Court is holds oral arguments In the case nine days before Tiktok is facing a ban unless replacement divests from the popular app.

Signed by President Joe Biden in April, the law would block tictok From US app stores and web hosting services unless replacement dance sells its share by 19 January.

The US government claims that Tictok allows Beijing to collect data and spy on users and is a management to disseminate propaganda. Porcelain And Bythadance strongly denies the claims.

TikTok claims that the law – the protective Americans from the Foreign opponents Act controlled applications – violates their first amendment rights.

“We believe the court will find the Tiktok ban, which is unconstitutional so that over 170 million Americans on our platform can continue to exercise their rights for free speech,” said a Tictoc spokes.

In a submission to the Supreme Court, TikTok said: “Congress has adopted a massive and outstanding speech restriction” which would “turn off one of America’s most popular speech platforms.”

“This, in turn, will silence speech from applicants and the many Americans who use the platform to communicate about politics, trade, art and other issues of public concern,” added it.

The potential ban can exert the relations between US and China just like Donald Trump Prepares to become black as president on January 20.

Trump, who has 14.7 million followers on TikTok, has appeared as An unlikely ally of the platform in a turn from its first term, when the Republican leader tried to ban the app, with reference to national security problems.

Trump’s lawyer, John Sauer, submitted a brief to the Supreme Court Last month it asks to pause the law.

In the Amicus Curiae or the “Friend of the Court” card, Sauer made it clear that the elected president does not decide on the legal benefits in the case.

“Instead, he respectfully requests that the court is considering keeping the law’s deadline for the sale of January 19, 2025 … and thus President Trump’s incoming administration allows the opportunity to strive for a political solution to the issues on the issue,” Sauer said.

The elected president met Tiktok’s CEO Shou Zi Chew at his Mar-A-Lago residence in Florida in December.

Trump told Bloomberg Recently, he had changed the idea of ​​the app.

“Now (that) I think about it, It’s for Tik TalkBecause you need competition, he said.

A coalition of free loan groups – including the influential American Civil Liberties Union – submitted a separate card to the Supreme Court that opposed the law and quoted censorship problems.

“Such a ban is outstanding in our country and, if it comes into force, will cause a far -reaching disturbance in Americans’ ability to get involved in the content and the audience of their own choice online,” they said.

In an 11th hour development on Thursday, billionaire Frank McCourt, founder of the non -profit project Liberty, announced that he had put together a consortium to acquire Tiktok’s US assets from Bythadance.

“We have submitted a proposal for a change,” McCourt said in a statement. “We look forward to working with Byta Dance, Presidential Election Trump and the incoming administration to get this deal.”