appeals court to dismiss ByteDance’s request to block the law.
. In a last-minute filing on Monday, the social media company made an urgent plea to the Supreme Court to intervene and halt the law, which was put into effect earlier in the year by January 6. However, despite these claims, the Department of Justice has remained steadfast and recently urged a U.S né?. TikTok and ByteDance have taken their case to the United States Supreme Court in a bid to stop the law that could potentially force TikTok to be sold or banned in the country. This move would give American app stores and internet hosting providers only a limited time to get ready for the January 19 deadline, when they might be required to block TikTok.
“TikTok is asking the Court to treat this situation like it usually does with free speech cases: applying the highest level of scrutiny to restrictions on speech and finding that it violates the First Amendment,” said TikTok spokesperson Michael Hughes in a statement sent via email.
On the same day, TikTok CEO Shou Chew reportedly had a meeting with President-elect Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago, as revealed by CNN’s Kaitlan Collins. For months TikTok has been arguing that this law violates the free speech rights of millions of users app stores and the company itself. This meeting took place following Trump’s remarks to the press expressing his appreciation for TikTok which marks a notable shift from his earlier efforts to ban the app through an executive order.
The issue of the TikTok ban heading to the Supreme Court has been long anticipated and it now appears to be on its way there
