The Supreme Court on Friday heard arguments in TikTok‘s emergency appeal seeking to block a federal law from going into effect that would ban the popular video app unless Chinese parent ByteDance sells its stake.
TikTok and ByteDance argued that the law, set to take effect Jan. 19, violates First Amendment rights of its 170 million U.S. users by categorically banning the platform unless ByteDance divests ownership. But while several Supreme Court justices acknowledged that the law raises free-speech issues, a majority of them — through their questions and comments during the hearing — indicated that the government’s national security concerns were the prevailing matter at hand.
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