Supreme Court appears ready to uphold law forcing TikTok’s sale from Chinese parent company– nypost.com Source Link Excerpt:
The Supreme Court seemed to lean Thursday toward upholding a law forcing Chinese parent company ByteDance to sell off TikTok, with all nine justices indicating national security concerns posed by the social media app outweighed potential threats to free speech.
The high court heard oral arguments from lawyers for TikTok and its content creators, who argued the US government’s goal in implementing the legislation was not preventing the harvesting of user data or thwarting foreign espionage but, instead, chipping away at core First Amendment rights.
“The government’s real target, rather, is the speech itself,” said attorney Noel Francisco in his opening statement, concluding that the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act — passed by Congress and signed into law by President Biden last April — “should not stand.”
The US Supreme Court appeared ready Thursday to uphold a law forcing Chinese parent company ByteDance to sell off TikTok, with all nine justices seeming to lend credence to national security concerns posed by the social media app.
