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28 Dec Saturday, USA: President-elect Donald Trump urged the US Supreme Court to pause the implementation of a law that would ban popular TikTok or force its sale. In a Friday legal filing, he argued that a legal delay would buy time for his administration to pursue a “political resolution” to the issue. In this case, the court will hear arguments that the app could be banned in the US if it is not sold to an American Firm by 19 January. The court will hear arguments in the case on 10 January 2025.
The law will mandate the owner of TikTok, ByteDance, to sell the platform to an American company or force a ban. Later this year in April, the US Congress voted to ban it unless ByteDance sold the app. The popular social media app TikTok has over 170 million US users and its parent company has sought to repeal the law. If the court does not rule in favor of the company the app could be effectively banned in the United States on 19 January, which is a day before Trump takes office.
Trump’s support for the app was reversal when in 2020 he tried to block the app in the US and force its sale to American companies due to its Chinese ownership. His views don’t the app have been mixed in the past but recently he vowed to “save” the app. Trump met with the CEO of TikTok Shou Chew earlier this month which was reported by CNN.
“President Trump takes no position on the underlying merits of this dispute,” said D John Sauer, Trump’s lawyer. He is also the president-elect’s pick for US solicitor general.
“Instead, he respectfully requests that the Court consider staying the Act’s deadline for divestment of January 19, 2025, while it considers the merits of this case, thus permitting President Trump’s incoming administration the opportunity to pursue a political resolution of the questions at issue in the case,” he said. Trump added he had received billions of views don’t the social media platform during his presidential campaign. TikTok did not immediately respond to it.
The company has previously said the justice department misstated its ties with China. They argue that its content recommendation engine and use data are stored in the US on cloud servers operated by Oracle while content moderation decisions that affect US users are made in the country as well.
The justice department has debated that Chinese control of TikTok poses a threat to national security, a position supported by most US lawmakers. Moreover, Austin Knudsen, the Montana attorney general, led a coalition of 22 attorneys general on Friday in filing an amicus brief asking the Supreme Court to uphold the national TikTok divest or ban legislation. For more such updates Keep Reading Questiqa.com
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