The Supreme Court will hear arguments in January regarding the constitutionality of a federal law that could ban TikTok in the U.S. if its Chinese parent company doesn't sell it. The justices will consider whether the law violates the First Amendment by restricting speech. The law, enacted in April, set a deadline of January 19th for TikTok to be sold or face a ban. Lawyers for TikTok and ByteDance urged the court to intervene before the deadline.
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday said it will hear arguments next month over the constitutionality of the federal law that could ban TikTok in the United States if its Chinese parent company doesn't sell it.
The law, enacted in April, set a Jan. 19 deadline for TikTok to be sold or else face a ban in the United States. The popular social media platform has more than 170 million users in the U.S.Lawyers for the company and China-based ByteDance had urged the justices to step in before Jan. 19. The high court also will hear arguments from content creators who rely on the platform for income and some TikTok users.
The companies have said that a shutdown lasting just a month would cause TikTok to lose about one-third of its daily users in the U.S. and significant advertising revenue. A panel of federal judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit unanimously upheld the law on Dec. 6, then denied an emergency plea to delay the law's implementation.
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