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Is the Looming Tiktok Ban a Sign of Things to Come?
What the ban could potentially signify is coming moving forward.
If we’re being honest, I almost forgot that there was a chance Tiktok would be banned this upcoming year. Given how massive this app is, and how deeply engrained it is in the culture of the United States, I’m not sure it fully ever sunk in that there was actually a possibility it could happen but here we are. The U.S. has said that if the app is not sold it will be banned in the country. Now, the Supreme Court has decided to hear the company’s challenge and it’s brought the stakes right back to the forefront.
Adam Liptak and Sapna Maheshwari with The New York Times write:
“The Supreme Court agreed on Wednesday to hear TikTok’s challenge to a law that could ban its U.S. operations, putting the case on an exceptionally fast track, culminating in oral arguments at a special session on Jan. 10.
In setting aside two hours for the argument, the justices signaled that they viewed the case as presenting questions of exceptional importance. The move came only two days after TikTok and its Chinese parent company filed an emergency application. In another break with its usual practices, the court did not ask the government to respond to the application, instead treating it as a…
