A federal appeals court ruled Friday to uphold a law that would force TikTok’s Chinese parent company to sell its platform or have it banned in the United States.
A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit dominated The law forcing ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company, to sell TikTok to a non-Chinese company or face a ban from the U.S. is lawful, unanimously acknowledged, and the law passed on January 19, 2025. This paved the way for it to come into effect on the same day. In their judgment, the judges stated: It characterized TikTok as a national security risk because the Chinese government can manipulate the app to its advantage, and said April’s anti-sale law does not violate national security risks. The First Amendment, as some of the law’s critics have argued.
“In this case, a foreign government is threatening to distort free speech in an important means of communication by leveraging a hybrid commercial strategy. [People’s Republic of China (PRC)] “They are willing to manipulate public discourse about TikTok to serve their own purposes,” the judges said in their ruling. “China’s ability to do so violates the fundamentals of free speech. In fact, the First Amendment prevents domestic governments from exercising comparable control over U.S. social media companies.” (Related article: Senate Intel Committee calls on Biden administration to investigate TikTok for allegedly giving data access to China)
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“Here Congress acted, as the Executive Branch recommended, to end China’s ability to control TikTok,” the justices wrote. “Understood that way, this law actually vindicates the values that are the foundation of the First Amendment.”
TikTok has consistently denied any ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), but a former senior ByteDance employee claims that CCP members within the company had “superuser” abilities and a “backdoor channel” to access Americans’ data. claimed to have. The app often promotes content that aligns with the policies of the Chinese Communist Party. According to Recent research by the Network Infection Research Institute and Rutgers University.
TikTok has also been accused of collecting data on Americans’ political views and illegally collecting data on children. The company filed a lawsuit to stop the anti-divestment law from taking effect, and Chinese embassy officials reportedly directly campaigned against the Capitol Hill Act, which was about to be passed by Congress in April. That’s what it means.
““The Supreme Court has a historic record of protecting Americans’ right to free speech, and we expect it to do just that on this important constitutional issue,” a TikTok spokesperson said. a representative said in a statement shared with the Daily Caller News Foundation. “Unfortunately, the TikTok ban was conceived and enforced based on inaccurate and flawed assumptions, resulting in complete censorship of the American public. The TikTok ban will continue until 2025, unless stopped. It will silence the voices of more than 170 million Americans here in the United States and around the world on January 19, 2020.”
President-elect Donald Trump has expressed support for TikTok, but it’s unclear what he can do to reverse the law, which is set to go into effect next month. According to In the New York Times.
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