In a legal filing on Friday, the Justice Department argued that the law that effectively bans TikTok doesn’t violate the First Amendment’s right to free speech.

Summary

The Justice Department urged the Supreme Court to reject Donald Trump’s request to delay a law banning TikTok or forcing its sale by Jan. 19, 2025.

TikTok’s parent, ByteDance, claims the ban violates First Amendment rights, but the DOJ argued the law targets foreign ownership, not free speech, and passes constitutional scrutiny.

Trump, despite opposing a ban publicly, asked the Court to extend the deadline to seek a political resolution.

The Supreme Court will hear arguments on Jan. 10, with the ban set to take effect before Trump’s inauguration.

  • EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    5·
    3 days ago

    You’re absolutely right, but I have the exact same concerns about Meta and Facebook, Google and YouTube, and Musk and Twitter - all of whom have been shown to be influencing the algorithms to censor left-wing news and people and favor right-wing groups and push right-wing extremism.

    The other platforms are already doing that. So does the news when they report on events using different language (see the cyber truck blowing up vs. the New Orleans attack). The only difference here is that it might be China doing the propagandizing instead of the corporate overlords.

    • makyo@lemmy.world
      1·
      3 days ago

      Absolutely a concern but at least Meta and Twitter do have some interest in stability in the USA. China does not necessarily have the same interests.