Supreme Court to hear TikTok case before ban deadline
LA TimesThe U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear TikTok’s challenge to a law that would ban the popular social media app next month unless its Chinese owner sells it. The U.S. Supreme Court has decided to hear TikTok’s challenge to a law that would ban the popular social media app next month unless its Chinese owner sells it. “We believe the Court will find the TikTok ban unconstitutional so the over 170 million Americans on our platform can continue to exercise their free speech rights.” The legal battle over TikTok poses a conflict between the American tradition of wide-open free speech versus the potential national security threat of a Chinese-owned company that collects the personal data of its users. “It really blesses the government’s ability and authority to shut down entire platforms for speech on pretty vague national security justifications.” TikTok on Monday said that its estimates showed that small businesses on the platform would lose “more than $1 billion in revenue and creators would suffer almost $300 million in lost earnings in just one month” unless the ban was halted.