TikTok Urges Court To Halt Ban From Taking Effect Until Supreme Court Can Review Case
Without emergency relief, the popular social media app will be banned ‘on the eve of a presidential inauguration,’ a legal filing notes.

After a federal appeals court held that a law that would force TikTok to divest from its Communist Chinese ownership or face a nationwide ban is constitutional, the popular video-sharing app is urging the court to halt the law from taking effect until the Supreme Court has a chance to weigh in.
The District of Columbia Circuit on Friday found that the divest-or-ban law does not infringe on First Amendment freedoms since the government’s law acts solely “to protect that freedom from a foreign adversary nation and to limit that adversary’s ability to gather data on people in the United States.”
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