TikTok asks Supreme Court to block law that could ban popular app
TikTok on Monday asked the Supreme Court to block a law that could potentially ban the video-based social media app, which has millions of American users.
WASHINGTON — TikTok on Monday asked the Supreme Court to block a law that could ban the video-based social media app, which has millions of American users.
At issue is a bipartisan measure passed by Congress and signed into law by President Joe Biden that would go into effect on Jan. 19, the day before President-elect Donald Trump takes office, unless the justices intervene.
The law, called the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, would require TikTok's Chinese owner, ByteDance, to sell the platform to an American company or face a ban.
TikTok has challenged the law, saying it violates its free speech rights under the First Amendment.
"The Act will shutter one of America’s most popular speech platforms the day before a presidential inauguration," TikTok's lawyers wrote in the court filing.
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