Posted on 12/06/2024 9:13:13 AM PST by RandFan
TikTok's bid to overturn a law which would see it banned or sold in the US from early 2025 has been rejected.
The social media company had hoped a federal appeals court would uphold its argument that the law was unconstitutional.
TikTok's lawyers told the court in September that a ban would have a "staggering" impact on the free speech of its 170 million US users.
But the court ruled the law "was the culmination of extensive, bipartisan action by the Congress and by successive presidents."
The law was "carefully crafted to deal only with control by a foreign adversary, and it was part of a broader effort to counter a well-substantiated national security threat posed by the PRC (People's Republic of China)," the ruling continues.
TikTok and its parent company may now choose to take their ongoing fight against the law to higher courts in the US - including to the Supreme Court, its highest authority.
Donald Trump's victory in the 2024 US Presidential Election may also present a lifeline for the app.
Despite unsuccessfully attempting to ban TikTok during his first term in 2020, he said in the run-up to the November elections he would not allow the ban on TikTok to take effect.
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Is there really any advantage to China spying on the vast number of airheads and idiots who post on TikTok?
Great news!
The Romanian constitutional court today annulled an election after a presidential candidate won with lots of TikTok videos promoting him.
Powerful forces are aligned against TikTok the Deep State intelligence apparatus.
Imagine enlisted and commissioned military among the idiots.
There are several. Just ban foreign nationalized companies from running media directly in the USA.
One of the most prominent Jewish groups in the country has thrown its support behind a fast-advancing bill that could lead to the massively popular video app TikTok being banned in the United States...
Jewish Federations of North America, representing hundreds of organized Jewish communities, said its support for the bill is rooted in concerns about antisemitism on the platform. The Jewish Federations and the Anti-Defamation League have accused TikTok of allowing antisemitism and anti-Israel sentiment to run rampant...
They should ban all those apps from spying on Americans but then what would the fbi be doing with our tax dollars ?
According to the throughly researched 2024 book by Peter Schweizer “Blood Money” Tik Tok is a ChiCom cyop intelligence gathering operation.
The real problem is that TikTok is a hotbed of conservative politics and lifestyle content. And it is utterly superior to Facebook, Instagram and in many ways to X.
It was annihilating Meta products like Instagram.
Zuckerberg called his paid for Congressmen and demanded protection from a better product.
Notice they make no move like this against Pornhub from Canada? Notice they have no problem with manufacturing in China? Notice they have no problem with Chinamen embedded in our labs, universities, medicine, banking, and being half the chauffeurs for Congress? Our Chairman of the joint chiefs was making secret phone calls to Chinese generals.
The TikTok moral panic would be revealed in an instant if Elon Musk decided to buy it. That would not satisfy them.
“Just ban foreign nationalized companies from running media directly in the USA.”
The USSR used to do that. Red China does. Nazi Germany would arrest you for listening to BBC. Guess the founders didn’t understand how important it was to restrict information or they would have never put in that silly 1st amendment.
Imagine? I used to be one!
I heard Trump and Elon are buying it.
Imagine Trump owning half of Tok Tok !
Democrats and left wing lunatics would be lining up to jump off bridges and tall buildings !
God I hope they buy it !
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