This morning, a federal appeals court upheld a recent US law that says if TikTok's Chinese parent company does not sell the popular video sharing app by a deadline next month, TikTok can be banned in the US. TikTok had argued that this law violated its free speech rights, the free speech rights of its 170,000,000 American users, but this federal appeals court upheld the law. They said it does not violate the first amendment. The president-elect said during the campaign he opposes blocking TikTok. Is there anything that he can do to change this Or It was actually Trump who first tried to ban TikTok during his previous term.
He has since apparently made a 180 and now says that he does not want the app to be banned in the US, but it's not clear that he's going to be able to do anything about this. The the ban would go into effect on January 19th, 1 day before his inauguration. So experts have told me that it may be a situation where he tries to get congress to overturn the law, but that that's unlikely because they've just voted on this.
A US appeals court upheld a law that could result in TikTok being banned in the United States. The court denied TikTok's ...