January 10, 2025

TikTok will “go dark” after January 19 unless the Supreme Court intervenes to stop a law to force its Chinese parent to sell or face a ban on U.S. platforms. “At least as I understand it, we go dark, the platform shuts down,” Noel Francisco, TikTok’s attorney, told Justice Brett Kavanaugh. In a bipartisan vote, […]

Today, in the more than two hours that the justices heard from attorneys for the government, the company and TikTok creators, the justices several times raised the possibility of putting the law on hold until underlying issues are resolved.

Francisco said that issuing a preliminary injunction or an administrative stay would “buy everyone a little breathing space,” adding that it was “why a short reprieve here would make all the sense in the world.”

But the justices also took seriously the concerns of the government, bolstered by the fact that the law passed with so much support on both sides of the aisle.

Source: Supreme Court Justices Express Skepticism Of Overturning Law That Could Lead To TikTok Ban

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