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TikTok Ban: Supreme Court Appears to Lean Toward Upholding Law That Would Force Sale or Shutdown, Despite First Amendment Issues
The Supreme Court signaled national security concerns over a law requiring TikTok's Chinese owner to sell its stake override free-speech issues.
The Supreme Court on Friday heard arguments in TikTok ‘s emergency appeal seeking to block a federal law from going into effect that would ban the popular video app unless Chinese parent ByteDance sells its stake. But while several Supreme Court justices acknowledged that the law raises free-speech issues, a majority of them — through their questions and comments during the hearing — indicated that national security concerns of the government were the prevailing matter at hand. Supporters of the law — the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act — have claimed it is not a ban because it offers ByteDance a choice: to divest TikTok’s U.S. business or be shut down.
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