Court upholds law that could trigger US TikTok ban

The Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit recently upheld the notion that the United States could ban TikTok over concerns for America's national security.

The law forces the divestment of ByteDance, a Chinese company with ties to the nation's communist government, from the social media platform TikTok.

A panel of three judges decided that Congress does have the authority to take action against TikTok and that doing so would not be a violation of the First Amendment.

That law is scheduled to take effect in January unless a series of actions take place, although the ruling could eventually be appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court.

TikTok sued the federal government over free speech protections after the TikTok ban was passed in Congress earlier in 2024.

According to the Post Millennial, "unless the Chinese company ByteDance sells the social media app to an American company, TikTok will be banned in the US."

Do you think that the First Amendment protects China from being able to control what information is spread to American Citizens via TIkTok, or is this too great of a risk to ignore?