Tiktok made a final effort on Monday to continue operations in the U.S., asking the Supreme Court to temporarily block a law aimed at forcing its Chinese-based parent company to divest short videos by January 19 App or face. ban.
Tiktok and Bondentance filed an urgent request to the judge for a ban on about 170 million Americans on social media apps, while they filed a ruling to uphold the law on the lower court’s ruling. A group of users of the app also made a similar request on Monday.
Congress passed the law in April. As a Chinese company, Tiktok poses a “national security threat of great depth and scale” because it has access to a large amount of data from U.S. users, from locations to private messages, and their secretly manipulated Ability to view content on the app.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Washington District of Columbia Tour rejected Tiktok’s argument on December 6 that the law violated the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution’s protection of freedom of speech.
Tiktok and Bytedance said in a filing filed with the Supreme Court: “If Americans properly inform the risks of so-called “secret” content manipulation, choose to continue to view content on Tiktok with the First Amendment entrust them to They. This choice, without a government censorship system.”
They added: “If the DC Tour holds the opposite frame, then Congress will have the right to freely prohibit any American from risking that the speech is affected by a foreign entity by determining the risk of speeches.”
Even after being shut down for a month, Tiktok lost about one-third of its U.S. users and undermined its ability to attract advertisers and recruit content creators and employees, the two companies said.
Tiktok called himself one of the “most important voice platforms” used by the United States, saying there is no threat to U.S. national security, and delaying enforcement of the law will allow the Supreme Court to consider the legality of the injunction, President-elect Donald Terr The incoming administration of Donald Trump also evaluates the law.
Trump, who failed to successfully attempt to ban Tiktok in his first semester of 2020, turned his stance and promised that he would work to save Tiktok during this year’s presidential campaign. Trump was on January 20, the second day of the deadline under the law under Tiktok.
The companies said in their filings that the law would “close one of the most popular speaking platforms in the United States the day before the president takes office.” “A federal law picks out and bans voice platforms that half Americans use is extraordinary.”
Trump asked at a press conference on Monday what steps he would do to stop the ban on Tiktok, saying he “has a passionate Tiktok in my heart” and he would “look at it”.
Trump met with Tiktok CEO Shou Zi Chew in Florida on Monday. Tiktok did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the meeting.
The two companies asked the Supreme Court to make a decision on its request by January 6 to allow for “closure of complex tasks of Tiktok” in the United States and coordinate with service providers through deadline settings under the law.
The dispute is due to the intensification of trade tensions between China and the United States, the two largest economies in the world.
Strict review
Tiktok denied that it owned or had shared our user data, accusing U.S. lawmakers of increasing speculative issues.
Tiktok spokesman Michael Hughes said after filing the papers: “We ask the court to do what traditionally does in free speech cases: to conduct the strictest scrutiny of speech and to conclude , violated the First Amendment.”
The Washington, D.C. Circuit Court wrote in its ruling: “The First Amendment exists to protect American freedom of speech. Here, the government takes action solely to protect this freedom from foreign rival states and limit the The ability of opponents to collect data on the people of the United States.”
The law would prohibit certain services to Tiktok and other foreign rivals-controlled apps, including offering it through app stores such as Apple and Alphabet, effectively preventing its continued use of the U.S. U.S. use unless BONDEDANCE BONDEDANCE puts Tiktok in Before the deadline.
The ban could open the door to the future crackdown on other foreign-owned apps in the United States. In 2020, Trump tried to ban WeChat owned by Chinese company Tencent, but was blocked by the court.
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