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Trump asks the Supreme Court to pause the law that threatens the Tiktok ban
President-elected Donald Trump submitted a short Friday and urged the Supreme Court to pause a law that would ban TikTok the day before his January 20 inauguration.
Washington DC – Presidential election Donald Trump submitted a short Friday and urged the Supreme Court to pause a law to ban Tiktok The day before his January 20 inauguration if it is not sold by its Chinese change of ownership.
President-elected Donald Trump has turned the course on his previous resistance to Tiktok. © Seth Little, Antonin UTZ / AFP / Pool
“In light of the news and difficulty in this case, the court should consider keeping the statutory deadline to give more respiratory space to address these issues,” Trump’s legal team wrote to give him “the opportunity to conduct a political resolution.”
Trump opposed hard Tiktok during his first semester 2017-2021 and tried in vain to ban the video app at the national security site.
The Republican expressed concern – echoed by political rivals – that the Chinese government can use us Tiktok users’ data or manipulate what they see on the platform.
US officials had also expressed alarms about the popularity of the video sharing app with young people, claiming that its parent company is subordinate to Beijing and that the app is used to spread propaganda, claims denied by the company and the Chinese government.
Trump urged an American company to buy TikTok, with the government that shared in the sales price, and his successor Joe Biden went a step further – signed a law to ban the app for the same reasons.
Trump turns the course on Tiktok
The TikTok logo is displayed on the Social Media App Company Office in Culver City, California. © Patrick T. Fallon / AFP
Trump has now Reverse course.
At a press conference last week, Trump said he has “a warm place” for Tiktok and that his administration would look at the app and the potential ban.
Earlier this month, the elected President Tiktok met CEO Shou Zi Chew at his Mar-A-Lago resident in Florida.
Recently, Trump told Bloomberg that he had changed the idea of the app: “Now (that) I think about it, I’m for Tiktok, because you need competition.”
“If you don’t have TikTok, you have Facebook and Instagram – and it is, you know, it’s Zuckerberg.”
Facebook, founded by Mark Zuckerberg and part of his metachnical empire, was among the social media networks that banned Trump after attacks from his supporters at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.
The ban was driven by concern that he would use the platform to promote more violence.
These prohibitions on large social media platforms were later lifted.
Trump short calls for resolution before the inauguration
The United States Supreme Court has agreed to hear Tiktok’s appeal against the Biden’s move to force its owner to dispose of it or meet a ban. © Julia Nikhinson / AFP
In the card submitted on Friday, Trump’s lawyer made it clear that the elected president did not take a position on the legal benefits in the present case.
“President Trump does not take a position on the underlying benefits of this dispute,” wrote John Sauer in Amicus Curiae – or the “Friend of the Court” – short.
“Instead, he respectfully requests that the court is considering stopping the law’s deadline for the sale of January 19, 2025, while considers the benefits of this case and thus allow President Trump’s incoming administration to strive for a political solution to the issues in question.”
A coalition of free surface ring groups – including American Civil Liberties Union – also left a separate card to the Supreme Court that opposes the enforcement of the law, with reference to 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, in their own choice, the” rights groups “read, partly.
US top court agreed last week about Hear Tiktok’s appeal Towards bid’s move to force its owner to dispose of it or meet a ban.
With oral arguments scheduled for January 10, the case must be heard with a breaking neck.
TikTok claims that the law, the protective Americans from the Foreign opponents Act, violates the first rights for free speech.
AFP, among more than a dozen other fact control organizations, is paid by TikTok in several countries to verify videos that potentially contain false information.
