Appeals court to hear TikTok challenge to law requiring app sale
Source: Roll Call
Posted September 12, 2024 at 10:34am
A federal appeals court will hear oral arguments Monday in TikTok’s challenge to a law requiring a sale or ban of the app in the U.S., in a case that could determine Congress’ ability to regulate the company and other platforms for national security or other reasons.
TikTok and its China-based parent company, ByteDance, along with a group of its users, are set to urge a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit that the law undermines their free-speech rights and unconstitutionally targets the social media platform.
The law, passed by Congress earlier this year, mandates that Tiktok’s American subsidiary be divested from China-based ownership or be blocked in the United States. TikTok says it is “technologically, commercially, and legally infeasible” to divest the U.S. operations.
The Biden administration has argued in the case that intrusion into the company’s ownership is justified because of the security risks of potential Chinese government use of the platform’s trove of data and access to Americans’ cellphones. Monday’s arguments come at the confluence of years of concern over Chinese-based ownership of the major social media platform and standoffs in Congress and the courts over thorny questions about free speech online.
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