Tuesday, December 24, 2024 -US President-elect, Donald Trump has suggested that he may allow TikTok to continue operations in the United States.
Speaking on Sunday, November 22, at an event hosted by the conservative
organization Turning Point USA in Phoenix, Arizona, Trump said that the popular
video-sharing app may have helped reach some key voters in the presidential
election, and expressed the possibility of keeping TikTok around "for a
little while."
"We did go on TikTok, and we had a great response. We had billions
and billions of views," said the president-elect, adding that he was shown
a chart highlighting the views his campaign had received on the app.
On Wednesday, the US Supreme Court agreed to review a request from
TikTok and its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, to block a law that would
require the sale of the popular video-sharing app by Jan 19, or face a ban on
national security grounds.
The nation's top court is set to hear arguments on Jan. 10 regarding
whether the law unconstitutionally limits freedom of speech, in breach of the
First Amendment.
The court's ruling was issued two days after TikTok's petition for an
injunction against the law. TikTok argued that the potential ban would shutter
one of America's most popular speech platforms the day before a presidential
inauguration, and "silence the speech of Applicants and the many Americans
who use the platform to communicate about politics, commerce, arts, and other
matters of public concern."
In April, US President Joe Biden enacted the law that gives ByteDance
only 270 days to sell TikTok, citing unfounded national security concerns.
If the company fails to comply, the law will require app store operators
such as Apple and Google to remove TikTok from their platforms.
In May, TikTok sued the US government to block the potential ban, which
has drawn widespread criticism.
In early December, the US Court of Appeals in Washington, DC dismissed
TikTok's claim that the ban is unconstitutional.
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