Banning TikTok, the US rejects the company's request - the Chinese will take the case to the US Supreme Court
Now TikTok must move quickly with a request to the Supreme Court to block or overturn a law that would require Chinese parent company ByteDance to give up the short video app by January 19, after an appeals court on Friday rejected the offer that required more time.
TikTok and ByteDance on Monday had filed an emergency motion with the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, seeking more time to present their case to the US Supreme Court.
The companies had warned that without court action, the law would "shut down TikTok one of the most popular speech platforms in the country for its more than 170 million domestic monthly users".
But the court rejected the bid, saying that TikTok and ByteDance had not identified a previous case "in which a court, after rejecting a constitutional challenge to an act of Congress, has ordered the Act to take effect while review is sought in Supreme Court", it is stated in the unanimous decision of the court on Friday.
A TikTok spokesperson said after the ruling that the company plans to take its case to the Supreme Court, "which has an established track record of protecting Americans' right to free speech." According to the law, TikTok will be banned if ByteDance does not remove it by January 19. The law also gives the US government sweeping powers to ban other foreign-owned apps that might raise concerns about collecting Americans' data.
The US Department of Justice argues that "China's continued control of the TikTok app poses a continuing threat to national security." The chairman and top Democrat on a US House committee on China told the CEOs of Google, Alphabet and Apple that they should be ready to remove TikTok from their US online app stores on January 19.
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