a federation Court of Appeal A law requiring China-based ByteDance to sell TikTok or face an effective ban in the United States was upheld on Friday.
The U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., struck down the ruling TikTok argued the ban was signed into law by the president Joe Biden In April, the bill was declared unconstitutional and violated the First Amendment rights of the 170 million Americans who use popular social media services.
If ByteDance fails to sell TikTok by January 19, the law will require app store companies such as Apple and Google, as well as internet hosting providers, to stop supporting TikTok, effectively banning the app.
Lawmakers from both parties have cited national security concerns related to TikTok’s alleged ties to the Chinese government as justification for banning the app.
Rep. Troy Balderson, R-Ohio, March called TikTok “is a surveillance tool used by the Chinese Communist Party to spy on Americans and collect highly personal data.”
President-elect Donald Trump It has not yet been said whether his government will enforce the ban when he takes office next month.
in a september postal On Truth Social, Trump said he “won’t do anything to TikTok, but the other side will shut it down, so if you like TikTok, go out and vote for Trump.”
Karoline Leavitt, a spokesperson for the Trump-Vance transition, told CNBC in November that the president-elect “will deliver” on his campaign promises.
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