Finally from Sunday TikTok in the US – Dismissed his appeal to the Supreme Court

Rolls down popular application, in . The U.S. Supreme Court today ratified Friday (17.01.2025) a new law that will ban the operation of TikTok, clearing the way for the closure of widely popular application in the US as early as Sunday. The nine judges of the Court considered that the legislation did not violate the First Amendment to the US Constitution, which guarantees freedom of speech, which was also the defence line of ByteDance in its appeal against the law. CORVERSE The law was passed last April with a broad bipartisan majority in Congress and was signed by outgoing Democratic President Joe Biden. The Supreme Court reached the decision, after the case was dealt with quickly, with the hearings of the parties taking place on January 10, just nine days before the deadline laid down by the law. The case court involved a wide range of issues, including freedom of speech rights and national security concerns in the social media era. CORVERSE The company has 7,000 employees in the US, while TikTok users in this country amount to 170 million. The government of outgoing President Biden accuses TikTok and Mother ByteDance of allowing Beijing to gather the data of the users of the application and spy on them, which China denies. US President-elect Donald Trump’s national security adviser Donald Trump said yesterday that the new government would keep TikTok alive in the country, as long as there is a viable agreement. Many users have begun downloading their videos and data from TikTok pending the ban and are “immigrating” to other platforms, including Chinese property RedNote. A White House official said the Biden government would not start implementing the law from Sunday, leaving it to the upcoming Trump government. “Our position on this was clear: TikTok should continue to function but under American ownership. Given the time that comes into effect during a holiday weekend one day before the inauguration, it will be up to the next government to implement it,” the official said.