The Supreme Court will hear arguments on January 10th regarding a law that could ban TikTok in the US if not sold. The law, enacted in April, sets a January 19th deadline for TikTok's sale or face a ban. The court will consider arguments from TikTok, ByteDance, content creators, and users, exploring whether the law excessively restricts speech, violating the First Amendment.
After meeting with TikTok's CEO Mon, Trump now says he might reevaluate a law that's set to ban the platform in a few weeks.
The justices will hear arguments Jan. 10 about whether the law impermissibly restricts speech in violation of the First Amendment., enacted in April, set a Jan. 19 deadline for TikTok to be sold or else face a ban in the United States. The popular social media platform has more than 170 million users in the U.S.Lawyers for the company and China-based ByteDance had urged the justices to step in before Jan. 19.
The timing of the arguments means that the outgoing Biden administration’s Justice Department will make the case in defense of the law that passed Congress with bipartisan support and was signed by Democratic President Joe Biden in April., who once supported a ban but then pledged during the campaign to “save TikTok,” has said his administration would take a look at the situation. Trump met with TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club in Florida on Monday.
The companies have said that a shutdown lasting just a month would cause TikTok to lose about one-third of its daily users in the U.S. and significant advertising revenue.Without court action, the law would take effect Jan. 19 and expose app stores that offer TikTok and internet hosting services that support it to potential fines.
It would be up to the Justice Department to enforce the law, investigating possible violations and seeking sanctions. But lawyers for TikTok and ByteDance have argued that Trump’s Justice Department might pause enforcement or otherwise seek to mitigate the law’s most severe consequences. Trump takes office a day after the law is supposed to go into effect.
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