Washington | The US Supreme Court signalled it’s likely to uphold a law that would ban the popular TikTok social media platform in the US if it is not sold by its Chinese parent company by January 19.
Hearing arguments in Washington, a majority of justices suggested they see US national security concerns as overriding the free speech interests of the companies and content creators. Several justices cast the law as being focused not on speech, but on ByteDance Ltd, the parent company that Congress concluded has dangerously close ties with China’s Communist government.
