
TikTok and its owner ask for temporary block to law that could result in the app’s US ban
CNN
Chinese-based ByteDance and its short-video app TikTok asked an appeals court Monday to temporarily block a law that would require parent company ByteDance to divest TikTok by January 19 or face a ban in the United States, pending a review by the US Supreme Court.
Chinese-based ByteDance and its short-video app TikTok asked an appeals court Monday to temporarily block a law that would require parent company ByteDance to divest TikTok by January 19 or face a ban in the United States, pending a review by the US Supreme Court. The companies filed the emergency motion with the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, warning that without the order the law will take effect and will “shut down TikTok — one of the nation’s most popular speech platforms — for its more than 170 million domestic monthly users on the eve of a presidential inauguration.” On Friday, a three-judge panel of the appeals court upheld the law requiring ByteDance to divest TikTok in the US by early next year or face a ban in just six weeks. Lawyers for the companies said the prospect that the Supreme Court will take the case “and reverse is sufficiently high to warrant the temporary pause needed to create time for further deliberation.” The companies also noted that US President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to prevent a ban, arguing the delay “will give the incoming administration time to determine its position — which could moot both the impending harms and the need for Supreme Court review.” The Justice Department did not immediately comment.

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