TikTok, the popular social media platform celebrated for its frothy mix of dance videos, cat antics, news clips and recipes, will wage a substantial First Amendment battle at the Supreme Court on Friday.
As the Biden administration, defending a ban on TikTok, emphasizes the national security risks of the app’s Chinese parent company, TikTok and its allies are trying to shift the focus to the speech rights of millions of Americans and the ordinary fare they regularly see.
In the Biden administration’s defense of the law, US Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar asserted in a filing last week: “No one disputes that the People’s Republic of China seeks to undermine US interests by amassing sensitive data about Americans and engaging in covert and malign influence operations. No one disputes that the PRC pursues those goals through ostensibly private companies subject to its control and by pre-positioning assets in the United States to deploy at opportune moments.
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