TikTok Asks U.S. Supreme Court to Temporarily Block Upcoming January Ban

Social network TikTok today asked the U.S. Supreme Court to temporarily halt the impending ban pending the completion of the appeal process. TikTok to be banned from US app stores Starting January 19th Because parent company ByteDance has not sold TikTok to non-Chinese companies Act stipulations April.

TikTok called on the Supreme Court to hear its appeal, upholding free speech arguments that lower appeals courts rejected. TikTok’s petition to the Supreme Court claims that Congress “enacted massive and unprecedented restrictions on speech” and that TikTok is one of the country’s “most popular and important places for communication.”

U.S. lawmakers have given ByteDance nine months to sell TikTok to a company not based in China, but ByteDance insists doing so is impossible. ByteDance said it could not hand over the TikTok source code to a new owner because it would take years for engineers to become familiar with it for routine maintenance, and ByteDance did not plan to allow third-party companies access to its TikTok algorithm. Law.

In addition, China has stated its firm opposition to any sales of the TikTok app, and any sales require approval from the Chinese government. Under the terms of the bill, app store owners Google, Apple and other companies would be required to stop distributing TikTok in January if it is not sold. If TikTok is ultimately banned, users who have already downloaded the app will be able to continue using it as long as it remains functional, but there will be no distribution method to obtain the app in the United States.

U.S. lawmakers want to sell TikTok to companies outside China out of concern that the Chinese government could force ByteDance to hand over information about U.S. users, amid suggestions that China could use TikTok for political propaganda.

President-elect Donald Trump may lift or delay the ban on TikTok. according to CNBCTrump told reporters on Monday that his administration would “look at TikTok.” Trump tried to ban TikTok while in office but said this year he opposed the law passed by Congress.

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