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END OF THE ROAD? TikTok Asks Supreme Court to Intervene as Nationwide Ban Set to Take Effect Next Month
Gateway Pundit ^ | December 16, 2024 | Ben Kew

Posted on 12/16/2024 5:13:04 PM PST by Macho MAGA Man

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END OF THE ROAD? TikTok Asks Supreme Court to Intervene as Nationwide Ban Set to Take Effect Next Month by Ben Kew Dec. 16, 2024 6:40 pm34 Comments TruthTweetShareGettrGab

Photo Courtesy of the House Select Committee TikTok’s presence in America may be reaching the end of the line.

The popular video app, which is owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, is currently scheduled to be banned nationwide on January 19th, 2025, just one day before Donald Trump takes office.

However, it has now filed a petition to the Supreme Court in a last ditch attempt to try and save its place in the valuable American media market after all its other legal attempts fell on deaf ears.

“The Act will shutter one of America’s most popular speech platforms the day before a presidential inauguration,” TikTok wrote in its petition.

(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Government; Society
KEYWORDS: ccp; ccpspyware; chicoms; china; spying; tiktok; trump
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I think this will be great news if they're banned.
1 posted on 12/16/2024 5:13:04 PM PST by Macho MAGA Man
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To: Macho MAGA Man

So? You actually think it will stop at TikTok? You don’t think this law won’t be used by the government to extort other domains so they can control content? This is just the beginning of the end of the internet.


2 posted on 12/16/2024 5:22:31 PM PST by Openurmind
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I would agree except theres one reason im not... the owner... China... I’m just looking the other way on this one.


3 posted on 12/16/2024 5:25:20 PM PST by sit-rep
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To: Macho MAGA Man

I think the Supreme Court needs to weigh in.


4 posted on 12/16/2024 5:27:32 PM PST by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS-REMEMBER REV. NIEMOLLER)
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To: Openurmind

Everyone who wants tik tok has it already. This legislation only prohibits from being offer it Apple app store and Google Play store in the US. Nothing a good VPN cannot fix.


5 posted on 12/16/2024 5:29:36 PM PST by Steven Scharf
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To: sit-rep

Have you read the bill and how it is worded? Read it very slowly and let the legal words sink in. It is not just TikTok or foreign owned apps, domains, or servers. It is a Trojan horse on steroids that they could twist against anyone they want...

If It was just TikTok I wouldn’t be worried. But it is not...


6 posted on 12/16/2024 5:31:01 PM PST by Openurmind
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“Everyone who wants tik tok has it already. This legislation only prohibits from being offer it Apple app store and Google Play store in the US. Nothing a good VPN cannot fix.”

Then there is no reason for it. Read it, it is not just TikTok...


7 posted on 12/16/2024 5:32:21 PM PST by Openurmind
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I think this will be great news if they're banned.

Absolutely. Let's ban X next. And then after that, FR.

According to the bill, the government can do that.

8 posted on 12/16/2024 5:34:53 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: Nextrush
I think the Supreme Court needs to weigh in.

They probably will. I can't see them ignoring this. It's too big of a case for them.

9 posted on 12/16/2024 5:36:05 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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“According to the bill, the government can do that.”

Absolutely. They use the words “terrorist” and “adversaries”. Those are very broad brushes that could be twisted to apply to just about any anti-poltitically correct app, domain, or server. The potential for extortion is off the charts. Trump is not going to be there forever. And this will in no time at all be pointed at “terrorist” Christians and conservatives because they are considered “adversaries” of our country.


10 posted on 12/16/2024 5:42:50 PM PST by Openurmind
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To: Macho MAGA Man

Ludicrous anti-China hysteria on both sides. This is a free speech issue. The burden of proof is on the conspiracy theorists obsessed with peddling baseless foreign country brainwashing schemes.


11 posted on 12/16/2024 5:43:29 PM PST by merzbow
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To: Macho MAGA Man

Whatever happened to that guy, who owns Telegram, after he was detained in France? Is he free again or is he still being held?


12 posted on 12/16/2024 5:44:44 PM PST by ducttape45 (Jeremiah 17:9, "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?")
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Trump is not going to be there forever.

I'm preparing for the upcoming Newsom Administration.

Trump bought us four years. Maybe.

13 posted on 12/16/2024 5:49:40 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: ducttape45

I think he’s free for now. His charges carry up to 10 years in the slammer.


14 posted on 12/16/2024 5:50:12 PM PST by Macho MAGA Man (The last two weren't balloons. One was a cylindrical object)
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To: MinorityRepublican

“I’m preparing for the upcoming Newsom Administration.

Trump bought us four years. Maybe.”

That is exactly what I see too.


15 posted on 12/16/2024 5:52:32 PM PST by Openurmind
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To: ducttape45

I hope Trump can have some influence with that situation.


16 posted on 12/16/2024 5:54:16 PM PST by Openurmind
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To: MinorityRepublican

If they were owned by China, they’d have to sell to an American company. Neither are so it’s not nearly like TicTok. By the way, the company had more than two hundred days to see and didn’t so screw them.


17 posted on 12/16/2024 5:54:51 PM PST by napscoordinator (DeSantis is a beast! Florida is the freest state in the country! )
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To: MinorityRepublican

See \sell


18 posted on 12/16/2024 5:56:18 PM PST by napscoordinator (DeSantis is a beast! Florida is the freest state in the country! )
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I hope Trump can have some influence with that situation.

He can encourage the Supreme Court to take up the case.

Our Republicans in Congress are useless. They're paid off by the Deep State.

19 posted on 12/16/2024 5:57:01 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Didn’t mean to mislead you there, I was replying to Ducttape’s mention of Telegram. It is a foreign legal issue but maybe he can have some positive influence to get the guy out of trouble.


20 posted on 12/16/2024 5:59:40 PM PST by Openurmind
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