An appeals court judge wrote that the law that would force a sale or ban of TikTok 'survive[s] constitutional scrutiny.'
Washington — A federal appeals court upheld a law that would ban TikTok in the U.S., dealing another setback to the widely popular video-sharing app as the federal government seeks to force a sale over its Chinese ties.A panel of three judges from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit sided with the Justice Department in declining to review the petition for relief from TikTok and ByteDance, its Chinese parent company.
'The platform consists of millions of lines of software code that have been painstakingly developed by thousands of engineers over multiple years,' the petition said. During oral arguments in September, the appeals panel appeared skeptical of TikTok's argument that free expression outweighs national security concerns, but the three judges were also critical of the government's stance.
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