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The U.S. Supreme Court upheld a law on Friday that bans TikTok in the United States on national security grounds, unless its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, sells the short-video app by Sunday.
In a unanimous 9-0 decision, the justices declined to intervene in the case, effectively ruling against TikTok, which is used by roughly half of all Americans.
The Court ruled that the law, passed by an overwhelming bipartisan majority in Congress last year and signed by Democratic President Joe Biden, does not violate the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment protection against government abridgment of free speech.
The justices affirmed a lower court’s decision that had upheld the measure after it was challenged by TikTok, ByteDance and some of the app’s users.Tap Here To Read Full Details
