Janurary 10, 2025

The Supreme Court on Friday heard oral arguments in the case involving the future of TikTok in the United States, and a law that could effectively ban the popular app as soon as next week.

The Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act targets TikTok and will impose harsh civil penalties on app “entities” that carry the service after a Jan.19 deadline. Among several issues the justices considered was whether the law violates the Constitution’s free speech protections.

During the over two-hour long argument, justices repeatedly questioned TikTok’s head lawyer about the social media platform’s ties to the People’s Republic of China. And they seemed generally unconvinced by TikTok’s main argument, that the law violates the free speech rights of its millions of individual users in the United States.

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https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/09/supreme-court-set-to-hear-oral-arguments-on-challenge-to-tiktok-ban.html