Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch expressed concerns Friday that the divest-or-ban law targeting TikTok might not “achieve its goals.” Gorsuch warned that foreign adversaries could ultimately turn to another application for surveillance of U.
The decision resolves a long-running legal dispute between the Department of Justice and TikTok. But experts say President-elect Donald Trump will now have considerable sway over the platform's future in the U.
The high court was highly skeptical that the difference between false and misleading would overturn a Chicago man’s conviction, but some of the justices seemed open to allowing the opportunity.
The Supreme Court appeared ready to uphold a law that will ban TikTok in the U.S. if its Chinese owners don't sell the widly popular platform.
A majority of the Supreme Court appeared likely to uphold a controversial ban on TikTok over concerns about its ties to China, with justices lobbing pointed questions at lawyers for the social media app and a group of its content creators.
TikTok is reportedly prepared to shut down its app on Sunday, when the ban is scheduled to take effect, though the actual language of the law technically only mandates that the social media platform be taken off of app stores to prevent new users from downloading it.
Justice Neil Gorsuch detailed his reasoning in his Supreme Court opinion for voting to uphold the TikTok ban in the U.S. This comes days before President-elect Donald Trump takes the White House for his second term.
Most Supreme Court justices seemed skeptical that free speech online is “imperiled” by a Texas law requiring porn websites to verify ages.
The Supreme Court on Friday unanimously upheld the federal law banning TikTok beginning Sunday unless it’s sold by its China-based parent company.
The Supreme Court on Friday unanimously upheld a law requiring TikTok’s China-based parent company to divest from the app, teeing up a ban set to take effect Sunday. The justices sided with the Biden administration,
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday unanimously upheld the federal law banning TikTok beginning Sunday unless it's sold by its China-based parent company, holding that the risk to national security posed by its ties to China overcomes concerns about limiting speech by the app or its 170 million users in the United States.