The TikTok social video app ban will be blocked in the US if it is ruled out by the Trump-Biden re-elected term

The social video app, which is owned by Chinese firm ByteDance and used by around 170 million Americans, has been appealing the ban since US president Joe Biden signed the law underpinning it last year. The TikTok app may be blocked in the US by January 19 if ByteDance does not sell the US business by that date. Donald Trump, who retakes the White House on January 20, publicly originated the idea that ByteDance be forced to sell TikTok during his first presidential term but has since reversed course.

If the court allows the ban to go ahead—and Trump doesn’t find a way to stop it—the move will be an unprecedented technological clampdown in the country.

PAFACA does not require anyone to uninstall TikTok. It doesn’t say TikTok shouldn’t be working in the US. Instead, it effectively tries to throttle TikTok by making it harder to use over time and by stopping companies from providing services that help it to keep working and quickly loading videos.

The app’s estimated 170 million users, the future of a billion dollar social media platform, and the potential for China to pose a threat to the nation’s security are all at stake.

Implications of the Second Amendment for TikTok and the Free Expression Rights of the Privatized Sector, with Particular Relationship to Susquehanna

Other middle-ground rulings are also possible. For instance, the Supreme Court could quibble with how the lower court reached its decision upholding the law and order the court to revise its opinion.

Now, if the court overturns the law, there is not much left for Trump to do. On the other hand, if the high court upholds the law, Trump has a number of options, including instructing his administration to not enforce it while he works on a deal.

While he is the president-elect, Trump wrote a brief for the private sector. At the time, he did not hold any executive powers and he cited no legal authority in making his request.

The lower court’s ruling that upheld the law agreed that it has implications for the First Amendment’s free expression protections. The opinion stated that blocking China from being able to censor Americans’ speech was in keeping with the spirit of the First Amendment.

But other TikTok watchers wondered if billionaire Jeff Yaras’ close relationship to Trump is playing a part. Susquehanna International Group holds a large stake in the owner of TikTok.

Many creators on the app want TikTok to double down on competing services in order to protect them against the US being a big market for them.

The U.S. Horse Trade and the High-Energy Sino-Russian War on Cosmic Rays: A Counterexample

According to national security experts in contact with Chinese regulators, officials appear to be warming to the idea of horse-trading.

Analysts think it is a chance that China will agree to the sale of TikTok’s U.S. business if the new Trump administration gives it some trade concessions.

It would be foolish of those companies to comply with the law in the hope that President Trump wouldn’t enforce it. There are hundreds of billions of dollars of potential liability. And even if President Trump is saying, ‘don’t worry about it, I’m not going to enforce it against you,’ do you really want to take the chance that he’s not going to change his mind on that? Do you not want him to have that level of leverage over your company? I don’t believe it.

The justices will meet on Friday, so there could be a short order on the case as soon as that day. The court is also scheduled to release orders on Monday morning, though Schettenhelm warns not to read into it if nothing is released by then — it may just mean they’re fleshing out their reasoning in a longer written order.

A Lifetime with TikTok: Lavelle Dunn’s #MeTooTheLavelleShow #Closed To Your Eyes

As @TheLavelleShow, Dunn specializes in lifestyle content—“tips and tricks that ultimately center around my life”—that now reaches some 730,000 people. In the last year, he has partnerships with Whole Foods and Marriott as well as The Cheesecake Factory. He was able to quit his job as a hotel concierge when he made six figures, because he was making well over six figures. He told me that it took him some time to publicly say that he was an important player in the social media world. I never thought that was where my career would end up.

Lavelle Dunn never dreamed of being on screen. In 2019, he moved from Chicago to Los Angeles with plans of working behind the scenes in Hollywood. He made connections at networking events. He tried his hand at screenwriting. “I never accepted that I could be successful in front of the camera, and vulnerably so,” he says. While many people need an outlet during the first few years of the epidemic, it was success that soon followed when Dunn joined TikTok. He reviewed watermelon jerky in May of that year. The video got 1 million views overnight and was a hot-button snack, since it was a hot-button snack. That’s the moment Dunn knew: TikTok was the key.

TikTok vs. ByteDance: The First Amendment as a Probe of the American Perception of the Chinese Government

While many of the justices voiced concern over the law’s First Amendment threats, they also appeared amenable to the government’s argument that the law was more targeted toward severing TikTok’s connections with ByteDance than limiting its free-speech rights.

The US has been warning for more than five years that TikTok could influence the American perception of the Chinese government. In public appearances and congressional hearings, the FBI director suggested that the Chinese government could use TikTok to spy on Americans. TikTok has denied that it shares any US data with ByteDance or the Chinese government.