Appeals court upholds TikTok ban, declining to block law that would force sale
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Washington — A federal appeals court upheld a law that would ban TikTok in the U.S., dealing another setback to the widely popular video-sharing app as the federal government seeks to force a sale over its Chinese ties.
A panel of three judges from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit sided with the Justice Department in declining to review the petition for relief from TikTok and ByteDance, its Chinese parent company.
"We conclude the portions of the Act the petitioners have standing to challenge, that is the provisions concerning TikTok and its related entities, survive constitutional scrutiny," Judge Douglas Ginsburg wrote in the majority opinion. "We therefore deny the petitions."
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