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Washington DC – Tiktok asked Supreme Court On Monday to temporarily block a law that would force its Chinese owner to sell the extremely popular platform or turn it off one month from now.
On Monday, Tiktok asked the Supreme Court to temporarily cancel a law that could lead to a ban in the United States as presidential election Donald Trump suggested that he could intervene to help the platform. © Collage: Reuters
The appeal to the country’s Supreme Court came on the same day as Tiktok’s CEO Shou Zi Chew met the US presidential election Donald TrumpAccording to one NBC News Report.
At a press conference on Monday, Trump said he has “a warm place” for Tiktok and that his administration would look at the app and potential for a ban.
The law, signed by President Joe Biden in April, would block TikTok from US App stores and web hosting services unless its ownership surfaces divest from the app by January 19.
TikTok asked to move on guard while questioning a decision for lower court that maintained the law – Protect Americans from foreign opponents controlled application laws – Potentially with an appeal to the Supreme Court itself.
Tiktok asked the country’s highest court to make a decision by 6 January.
Tictoc’s CEO Shou Zi reportedly met Trump on Monday when he continues to fight the ban. © Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images North America / Getty Images via AFP
“Congress has adopted a massive and outstanding speech restriction,” said Tiktok, who claims to have more than 170 million American users each month, in his submission to the Supreme Court.
If the law comes into force, it would “turn off one of America’s most popular speech platforms the day before a presidential inauguration,” Tiktok said.
“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 concerns.”
“Applicants – as well as countless small businesses that rely on the platform – will also suffer significant and irrevocable monetary and competitive injuries.”
The potential ban can further exert the US and China relations, just as Donald Trump is preparing to accommodate on January 20.
Although he tried to ban the app during his first mandate, Trump has appeared as a unlikely supporter of tiktokClaims that blocking the app would primarily benefit Facebook and Instagram’s parent company Meta, which banned him from his platforms after the Capitol attacks on January 6.
The US government has claimed without providing evidence that TikTok allows Beijing to collect data and Spy on usersWhile he also spreads propaganda, something like China and Bytdance has strongly denied.
An appeal court in the US appeal earlier this month unanimously maintained The law’s condition that TikTok disposes of Chinese ownership “is crucial to protecting our national security.”
