In a legal filing on Friday, the Justice Department argued that the law that effectively bans TikTok doesn’t violate the First Amendment’s right to free speech.

Summary

The Justice Department urged the Supreme Court to reject Donald Trump’s request to delay a law banning TikTok or forcing its sale by Jan. 19, 2025.

TikTok’s parent, ByteDance, claims the ban violates First Amendment rights, but the DOJ argued the law targets foreign ownership, not free speech, and passes constitutional scrutiny.

Trump, despite opposing a ban publicly, asked the Court to extend the deadline to seek a political resolution.

The Supreme Court will hear arguments on Jan. 10, with the ban set to take effect before Trump’s inauguration.

    • Cornelius_Wangenheim@lemmy.world
      7·
      2 days ago

      The difference is Russia knows how to manipulate Tik Tok now, as recent events in Romania have made abundantly clear. They no doubt used it to help Trump get elected.

    • theonlytruescotsman@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      78·
      3 days ago

      Primarily due to kids fucking with his rallies. But now Dems decided to risk the income of a few million Americans and the circuses of a couple hundred million Americans for no real reason. So it’s an easy political win for Trump if he can stop it, while of course enriching himself and his donors that have stakes in bytedance.

      • jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de
        78·
        3 days ago

        For no reason? China is using TikTok to derail elections in entire countries and promote civil strive everywhere by radicalising people against each other, while its Chinese counterpart is almost an educational app. TikTok is not a social media app, it’s the psyops equivalent of a nuclear weapon.

        • Maggoty@lemmy.world
          1·
          2 days ago

          You have evidence for this now? Did I miss where evidence other than, “trust us”, was released?

          • thericofactor@sh.itjust.works
            62·
            2 days ago

            Here you are again defending TikTok. Your last argument in another thread was I was echoing Trumps talking points. When I pointed out Trump actually doesn’t want to ban TikTok like this article highlights, I didn’t hear anything back.

            So enlighten us, what is bad about TikTok being banned?

          • Fades@lemmy.world
            32·
            2 days ago

            Is it truly so hard to believe that a service that literally crafts content to deliver to you on a person/demographic basis that is owned by a competitive state would be used to deliver narratives and ideas that erode the stability and well being of the other states?

            Romania, US elections are perfect examples of this, but the danger has been here for awhile now.

            How naive can you be? TikTok ain’t shit, it’s literally just a fucking video hosting service, you think only Xi and China can serve you an endless stream of slop, 10 seconds at a time?

            Grow up, open your eyes. Seeing a threat for what it is doesn’t mean you would literally agree with Hitler (nice logical fallacy btw)