The petition that TikTok submitted to the Supreme Court claims that Congress has "enacted a massive and unprecedented speech restriction," and that TikTok is one of the "most popular and important venues for communication" in the U.S.U.S.lawmakers gave ByteDance nine months to sell TikTok to a company not located in China, but ByteDance has maintained that doing so would be impossible.
If TikTok is ultimately banned, users who have downloaded the app already would be able to continue to use it so long as it stayed functional, but there would be no distribution method for getting the app in the United States.U.S.lawmakers want TikTok sold to a company outside of China over concerns that the Chinese government could force ByteDance to hand over information from users in the United States, plus there have been suggestions that China could use TikTok to spread political propaganda.
Today, we are asking the Court to do what it has traditionally done in free speech cases:…— TikTok Policy (@TikTokPolicy) December 16, 2024 Further, China has said that it will firmly oppose any sale of the TikTok app, and any sale would need to be approved by the Chinese government.
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