TikTook is asking the Supreme Court to place a pause on a regulation that requires that its Chinese-parent promote its U.S. operations or face a ban on tech platforms.
Courts have to date rejected TikTook’s declare that the regulation is in violation of the First Amendment. Its mum or dad, ByteDance, has till Jan. 19 to divest TikTook within the U.S. or face a ban on app shops.
In its emergency utility to the Supreme Court, TikTook says that the regulation “will shutter one of America’s most popular speech platforms the day before a presidential inauguration.”
In a press release, TikTook stated, “The Supreme Court has an established record of upholding Americans’ right to free speech. Today, we are asking the Court to do what it has traditionally done in free speech cases: apply the most rigorous scrutiny to speech bans and conclude that it violates the First Amendment.”