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Jan 17 2025
10:54 am

The Supreme Court on Friday delivered a blow to TikTok by upholding a law that could potentially lead to the video-sharing social media platform being banned in the United States.

The justices in an unsigned opinion with no dissents rejected a free speech challenge filed by the company, meaning the law is set to go into effect on Sunday as planned.

court acknowledged that the national security rationale affected its analysis of whether there was a free speech violation

The court concluded that the reasons for enacting the law are "decidedly content agnostic" that has nothing to do with restricting certain speech.

"TikTok's scale and susceptibility to foreign adversary control, together with the vast swaths of sensitive data the platform collects, justify differential treatment to address the government's national security concerns," the court said.

Interesting.

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