The U.S. federal appeals court upheld a law Friday that requires Chinese-based barbarians to divest their popular short video app Tiktok in the United States by early next year.
The decision was a major victory for the Justice Ministry and the opponents who owned the app in China and a devastating blow to the Tiktok parent party. It greatly improves the prospect of an unprecedented ban in just six weeks among social media apps used by 170 million Americans.
Tiktok plans to appeal the decision to the Supreme Court.
In detailing their support for the law, the Court of Appeals noted that it was a result of the joint efforts of Republicans and Democrats and the two presidents, as part of a broader effort to oppose the well-established national security threat posed by China (China) People’s Republic). ”
The Justice Department said Tiktok poses a threat under Chinese ownership because it has access to a large amount of personal data of Americans, so China can secretly manipulate information Americans consume through Tiktok.
Attorney General Merrick Garland called the decision a “important step to stop the Chinese government from weaponizing Tiktok.”
But the Chinese Embassy in Washington called the law a “blatant commercial robbery” and warned the United States that “must handle the case carefully to avoid damaging mutual trust and the development of bilateral relations between the two countries.”
Trade tensions between the world’s two largest economies have been drawn from the ruling after President Joe Biden’s administration imposed new restrictions on the Chinese chip industry. Beijing’s response was to ban exports to U.S. Gansu Airlines, Germanium and Mannia by completely banning exports.
U.S. Court of Appeal Judges Sri Srinivasan, Neomi Rao and Douglas Ginsburg rejected legal challenges posed by Tiktok and users until January 19, when they visited the U.S. agents sold or divested Tiktok’s U.S. assets or faced an injunction.
freedom of speech
“While today’s news is disappointing, rest assured that we will continue to fight to protect freedom of speech on our platform,” Tiktok CEO Shou Zi Chew said in a staff member seen by Reuters.
Free speech advocates quickly criticized the ruling. “The ban on Tiktok from blatantly infringing on the First Amendment rights of millions of Americans, who use the app to express themselves and communicate with people around the world,” the ACLU said.
In the analysis, the court said that China threatened to distort our speech through its relationship with Tiktok’s parents and “manipulating public discourse.”
China “the ability to do so does not match the fundamentals of freedom of speech. Indeed, the First Amendment prevents domestic governments from comparable control over American social media companies.”
The ruling – unless the Supreme Court revokes it, puts Tiktok’s fate in the fate of Biden’s first president, i.e. whether to grant a January 19 deadline of 90 days to force the sale and then be elected President Donald Trump then took office on January 20. However, it is unclear whether Bondentance can take a heavy burden to show that it has made significant progress to trigger the divestment required for the extension – or whether the Chinese government will approve any sale.
Trump failed to successfully attempt to ban Tiktok in the first semester of 2020, saying he would not allow Tiktok ban until the November election.
Friday’s decision upheld the law to enable the U.S. government to advertise its powers to ban other foreign-owned apps that could raise concerns about collecting American data and could be for the future of many other foreign-owned apps. Suppression opens the door. In 2020, Trump also tried to ban Tencent’s WeChat, but was blocked by the court.
Tict
If banned, Tiktok advertisers will seek new social media venues to buy ads. As a result, the stock of the Meta platform that competes with Tiktok in online advertising continued intraday records after the ruling and closed at 2.4%. Google’s parent Alphabet’s YouTube video platform also competed with Tiktok, closing at 1.25%.
The court’s opinion was written by Ginsburg, who was appointed by President Ronald Reagan and joined by Rao, who was appointed as the bench by Trump , while President Barack Obama’s appointment Srinivasan admitted that its decision would lead to Tiktok’s ban on Tiktok’s ban on January 19, no Extension of the land.
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The law prohibits app stores like Apple and Alphabet from offering Tiktok and Bars Internet hosting services, unless the BONDEDANCE stripping deadline is due to support Tiktok.
Google declined to comment, and Apple did not respond to a request for comment.
Srinivasan agreed, acknowledging that the decision would have a significant impact, noting: “170 million Americans use Tiktok to create and view various free expressions and interact with each other. Coverage, Congress and multi The president believes that divesting it from (China) control is crucial to protecting our national security.”
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