Posted on 01/16/2025 3:30:22 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
The Supreme Court has signaled it will release at least one opinion Friday, a hastily scheduled announcement that comes as TikTok’s divest-or-ban deadline approaches Sunday.
The justices indicate in advance when they will hand down opinions, but Thursday’s update was highly unusual. It came with short notice and indicated the justices won’t read their opinions aloud in the courtroom, as is typical.
“The Court may announce opinions on the homepage beginning at 10 a.m. The Court will not take the Bench,” the update to the court’s homepage read.
Normally, the court signals its opinion announcements a few days in advance. It did so for Friday with just roughly 18 hours’ notice.
Last term, the court only gave similarly short notice once, when it raced to hand down its decision keeping President-elect Trump on Colorado’s ballot after he was disqualified under the 14th Amendment’s insurrection ban.
The Supreme Court last Friday heard oral arguments in TikTok’s fight to save the platform from a new federal law requiring it to divest from its Chinese-based parent company, ByteDance, by Sunday or face a nationwide ban.
The video-sharing platform, which boasts more than 170 million U.S. users, has asserted the law violates the First Amendment and that it effectively will “go dark” if the ban takes effect.
The justices are hearing the case on a highly expedited schedule, leading to expectations that the court may rule before Sunday’s deadline passes.
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This is a test. Let’s see how the Supreme Court does on it.
The SCOTUS had already given us hints that the app was going to be banned on Sunday.
I heard Charlie Kirk again today say they had over a billion hits on TikTok running up to the election. It may not be for adults in the room but it is the choice of younger people.
The 1st Amendment must come first and foremost. Maybe Elon might buy it as rumors swirl.
ByteDance is not going to sell it. And even if they do, they're not going to sell the algorithm. So it'll be just like Facebook Reels, the videos are there but it's dumb and you can't program it to watch the videos you want to view.
Nice thing about TikTok is that, you can train the algorithm to watch nothing but MAGA content.
Or fishing videos if that's what you prefer.
In the USA TikTok is probably running on either Android or Iphone software.
The TikTok app would be downloaded from an app store. I know of two. The TikTok software source code could be reviewed by a trusted US company, compiled, and placed on the app stores.
“The TikTok software source code could be reviewed by a trusted US company,”
Such as?
It may not matter. Word on the street is everyone is jumping ship and migrating to another chinese app...
Rednote.
So they’ve made their decision.
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