A federal US court of three-judge bench panel has upheld a law that could lead to a ban in TikTok.
The U.S court of appeals of Columbia denied TikTok’s petition to overturn the law.
The law required TikTok to break ties with its China-based parent company ByteDance or be banned by Mid-January next year.
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The first Amendment exists to protect free speech in the United States. Here the Government acted 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.
The Court stated its opinion as written by Judge Douglas Ginsburg.
The supreme court has an established historical record of protecting Americans’ right to speech, and we expect they will do just that on this important constitutional issue.
TikTok spokesperson Michael Hughes said in a statement.
According to the statements, TikTok and ByteDance and another Plaintiff in the lawsuit are expected to appeal to the Supreme Court.
It’s not clear whether the court will take up the case.
TikTok is a social media platform that allows users to create, share and discover short videos.
It’s used to create videos in genre like comedy, dance and education and typically make videos that are 15-60 seconds long.
