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Published on: 10/01/2025 | 00:00:00
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Justices at the United States Supreme Court signalled scepticism towards a challenge brought by the video-sharing platform TikTok. It seeks to overturn a law that would force the app’s sale or ban it by January 19. The law in question was signed in April, declaring that ByteDance would face a deadline to sell its US shares. ByteDance and TikTok users have challenged the law’s constitutionality. The Supreme Court seemed swayed by the government’s position that the app enables China’s government to spy on Americans and carry out covert influence operations. Conservative Justice Samuel Alito floated the possibility of issuing what is called an administrative stay that would put the law on hold temporarily while the court decides how to proceed. Francisco asked the justices to put a temporary hold on the law. ‘Weaponise TikTok’ to harm US Tiktok has about 170 million American users, about half the US population. The immense amount of data the app could collect on users and their contacts could give China a powerful tool for harassment, recruitment and espionage.
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The goal is to undermine freedom of speech - to establish a precedent that the US government can shut down sites and/or prevent citizens from accessing them even if nothing about the sites or that access violates any other laws. They have to move very carefully though - the (predetermined) ruling has to be narrow enough to be seemingly justified by the specific case being made about TikTok and China but still broad enough to serve as a precedent in the future, when Trump and his successors use it as intended, to shut down sites that criticize them.
I see your point but would disagree, they gave the company the option to sell themselves to an american based company. They chose not to do that hence they value somthing more than just money. And its also been proven that tiktok is supressing certain things in its algorithm so its provably a chinese propaganda tool.