[ad_1] US lawmakers described the app as a threat to national security, accusing it of sending Chinese government propaganda to American teenagers and stealing personal data from subscribers. Byte Dance has until January 19 to sell TikTok or be banned in the United States. TikTok says there is no evidence that TikTok does any of these things. But during two hours of oral arguments heard today, the justices appeared to view the case not as a question about the First Amendment but as a question about regulating a foreign application. Despite imposing several deadlines on ByteDance to divest itself from TikTok, the president was soon too preoccupied with the upcoming 2020 election to finalize any deal. This takes us to the present. Over the past few years, Trump appears to have changed his feelings about TikTok and appears to have no interest in banning the platform as he did during his first term. Trump's change of heart may be due to a Biden administration bill passed in April that would require ByteDance to sell or ban TikTok in the United States. Sound familiar? The difference now is that Trump said during his 2024 presidential campaign: “For everyone who wants to save TikTok in America, vote for Trump.” Trump's new love of TikTok appears to be part of a plan to win the youth vote. To help him with this demographic, Donald Trump reportedly took the advice of his 18-year-old son Barron, who advised his father to appear on Joe Rogan's podcast, which turned out to be a very successful move. Barron likely convinced his father that being on TikTok would help him politically with teen voters. While the deadline is January 19, the day before Trump is sworn in as president, a 90-day extension could be granted if there are signs that a TikTok sale deal is close to being struck. Ironically, during his second term, Donald Trump seems ready, willing and able to move forward to save TikTok in the United States. But what the Supreme Court rules will also help determine what happens, and based on the justices' behavior today, a TikTok ban seems more likely than it did yesterday.
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U.S. Supreme Court appears ready to hammer the nails in TikTok’s coffin
Today the Supreme Court made it seem likely It will uphold the ban on the short video site TikTok in the United States, which is supposed to begin on January 19 unless a court orders a temporary halt. TikTok has been under attack from US lawmakers for years thanks to the app's connection to China. After all, TikTok is owned by the Chinese company ByteDance.
TikTok has more than 100 million users in the United States, and during his first term in office, President-elect Donald Trump nearly succeeded in banning the app via executive order. He also tried to sell TikTok to an American company. In September 2020, then-President Trump said he had an agreement in concept that could have happened TikTok ended up being owned by Oracle and Walmart.
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