The U.S. appeals court denied TikTok's petition to overturn the law, which requires TikTok to break ties with its China-based parent company ByteDance or be banned by mid-January.
in a few short months, handing a resounding defeat to the popular social media platform as it fights for its survival in the U.S.
“Unfortunately, the TikTok ban was conceived and pushed through based upon inaccurate, flawed and hypothetical information, resulting in outright censorship of the American people,” Hughes said. Unless stopped, he argued the statute “will silence the voices of over 170 million Americans here in the US and around the world on January 19th, 2025.
“Content on the platform could in principle remain unchanged after divestiture, and people in the United States would remain free to read and share as much PRC propaganda as they desire on TikTok or any other platform of their choosing,” Ginsburg wrote, using the abbreviation for the People’s Republic of China.Judge Sri Srinivasan, the chief judge on the court, issued a concurring opinion.
Meanwhile, on Capitol Hill, lawmakers who had pushed for the legislation celebrated the court’s ruling.
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