{"id":25550,"date":"2024-12-10T05:10:09","date_gmt":"2024-12-10T13:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2024\/12\/10\/news-19279\/"},"modified":"2024-12-10T05:10:09","modified_gmt":"2024-12-10T13:10:09","slug":"news-19279","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2024\/12\/10\/news-19279\/","title":{"rendered":"TikTok ban in US: Company seeks emergency injunction to prevent it"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

TikTok has requested an emergency injunction<\/a> to stop or postpone the planned ban on the platform in the US.<\/p>\n

Back in March<\/a>, the House of Representatives\u00a0passed a bill<\/a>\u00a0that would effectively ban TikTok from the US unless Chinese owner ByteDance agreed to give up its share of the immensely popular app.<\/p>\n

TikTok claims<\/a> this is censorship and collides with the principle of free speech. However, the company’s post on X got a lot of responses from people who feel TikTok itself banned them for no clear reason.<\/p>\n

On Friday, December 6, a federal appeals court panel unanimously upheld the law that gave ByteDance, TikTok’s Chinese parent company, nine months to either get a new owner or be banned in the US. The deadline is looming; unless the courts stop it, it will go into effect January 19, 2025.<\/p>\n

Free speech advocates agree with TikTok that a ban would violate First Amendment rights to free speech, mainly because it would set a precedent. The American Civil Liberties Union said to Reuters<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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“Banning TikTok blatantly violates the First Amendment rights of millions of Americans who use this app to express themselves and communicate with people around the world.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Ever since a former executive at TikTok\u2019s parent company ByteDance claimed in court documents that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) had access to TikTok data<\/a>, despite the data being stored in the US, TikTok has been battling to convince politicians that it operates independently of ByteDance, which has deep ties to the CCP.<\/p>\n

As early as in 2022, the FCC called TikTok an unacceptable security risk which should be removed from app stores, saying<\/a>\u00a0it had referred a complaint against TikTok and parent company ByteDance to the Department of Justice for collecting personal information from children without parental consent.<\/p>\n

Since 2020, several governments and organizations have banned, or considered banning, TikTok from their staff\u2019s devices. And during a US Senate hearing, General Paul Nakasone, Director of the National Security Agency (NSA) stated that \u201cAmerica\u2019s TikTok-addicted youth is playing with a loaded gun<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile TikTok also received orders to close its offices in Canada<\/a> following a national security review. The app has already completely been banned in India, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Nepal, and Somalia.<\/p>\n

According to TikTok<\/a>, a ban on the platform would cause small businesses to lose over $1 billion in revenue within just one month, while creators would suffer $300 million in lost earnings.<\/p>\n

TikTok’s petition has requested that the Court of Appeals make a decision on the injunction by December 16, 2024.<\/p>\n

We will keep you posted.<\/p>\n

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