TikTok asks US Supreme Court to block government ban
Hindustan TimesTikTok and its Chinese parent company asked the US Supreme Court to block a government ban set to take effect next month, invoking favorable comments about the popular social-media platform from President-elect Donald Trump. “It would not be in the interest of anyone — not the parties, the public, or the courts — for the act’s ban on TikTok to take effect only for the new administration to halt its enforcement hours, days, or even weeks later,” the company said. “Here the government acted solely to protect that freedom from a foreign adversary nation and to limit that adversary’s ability to gather data on people in the United States.” The appeals court a week later refused to temporarily halt the law while the Supreme Court decides whether to intervene. TikTok told the Supreme Court the law “will shutter one of America’s most popular speech platforms the day before a presidential inauguration.” A group of content creators also asked the high court to put the new law on hold.