Summary

TikTok plans to shut down its U.S. operations by January 19 unless the Supreme Court blocks a new law requiring its sale by Chinese parent company ByteDance.

The law, defended by the Biden administration as a national security measure, has been challenged by TikTok, ByteDance, and users as a violation of free speech.

The court, facing pressure from Trump to delay a decision, will hear arguments just days before the law’s implementation.

A shutdown could cost TikTok millions of users and ad revenue, with a ruling expected soon.

    • SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      What is it, the sixty-ninth amendment?

      ‘An unregulated internet, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear apps, shall not be infringed’?

      • Eugene V. Debs' Ghost@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        7 months ago

        This just in, nothing ever changes. Black people are still 3/5th of a person, women don’t have the right to vote, the vice president is 2nd place winner, and people don’t elect senators.