Friday, January 17, 2025
TIK TOK BAN UPHELD
Congress, last year, voted a bipartisan bill to ban TIKTOK (controlled by the Chinese company ByteDance) from the US, as of Sunday, 1/19/2024, unless it was divested from Chinese ownership. The ban was challenged and went to SCOTUS.
Unlike the partisan delay the GOP majority of the court imposed on the immunity case to assist T, the court, ruling extremely quickly, upheld the ban on TIKTOK in a unanimous decision.
This is a major decision on the conflict between free speech vs National Security (as a threat from potentially adversarial countries that own and control an application used by gazillions of Americans).
Here is the decision:
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
Nos. 24–656 and 24–657
TIKTOK INC., ET AL., PETITIONERS 24–656
v.
MERRICK B. GARLAND, ATTORNEY GENERAL
BRIAN FIREBAUGH, ET AL., PETITIONERS 24–657
v.
MERRICK B. GARLAND, ATTORNEY GENERAL
ON APPLICATIONS FOR INJUNCTION PENDING REVIEW
TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT
[January 17, 2025]
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/24-656_ca7d.pdf
Labels: BAN, DOJ, MERRICK B. GARLAND, SCOTUS, TIKTOC
