TikTok is probably going away soon. A law passed earlier this year required China’s Byte Dance to sell off the US part of their business or face being banned next month. TikTok sued claiming the law was unconstitutional under the First Amendment. Today a federal appeals court ruled the ban could stand.
The company argued that the law unfairly singled out TikTok and that a ban would infringe on the First Amendment rights of American users.
The judges disagreed with TikTok’s argument. They said the law was “carefully crafted to deal with only control by a foreign adversary,” and didn’t run afoul of the First Amendment. “The government acted solely to protect that freedom from a foreign adversary nation and to limit that adversary’s ability to gather data on people in the United States,” the judges wrote on Friday.
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