The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has urged the Supreme Court to reject President-elect Donald Trump's request to delay the implementation of a law banning the social networking app TikTok or forcing it to be sold by January 19.
Last week, President-elect Donald Trump filed a legal brief arguing that he should have time after his inauguration on January 20 to pursue a “ political solution” to the issue. The court will hold a hearing on arguments in the case on January 10, 2025.
The US Department of Justice has urged the Supreme Court to reject President-elect Donald Trump's request to delay the implementation of a law banning the social networking app TikTok.
The law, which was passed in April 2024, requires TikTok’s Chinese owner, ByteDance, to divest the platform’s U.S. assets or face a ban. TikTok has since filed a lawsuit to delay or overturn the ban.
The DOJ said Mr Trump's request could only be approved if ByteDance demonstrated a high likelihood of success in the divestment process, but the company has not done so.
In the DOJ's view, there is no dispute that China "seeks to undermine U.S. interests by collecting sensitive data on Americans and engaging in covert influence operations."
The US government asserted: "No one can dispute that (China's) control of TikTok through ByteDance is a serious threat to national security: TikTok's mass collection of sensitive data on 170 million Americans and their contacts makes it a powerful spy tool."
Trump's lawyer, D. John Sauer, wrote last week that the president-elect "respectfully requests that the Court consider postponing the January 19, 2025, divestment deadline of the Act, while it considers the merits of this case, thereby allowing the incoming administration of President Donald Trump the opportunity to pursue a political resolution to the questions at issue in the case."
TikTok urged the Supreme Court to block the law on free speech grounds in the US Constitution on Tuesday. It said Congress was not seeking to ban Chinese-owned apps like Shein or Temu, suggesting "it targeted TikTok for its social media content, not its data."
If the court doesn’t block the law by January 19, new TikTok downloads on the Apple or Google app stores will be banned, but existing users will be able to continue accessing the app. However, services will degrade over time and eventually shut down because the companies will be banned from providing support.
The current administration of President Joe Biden could grant TikTok another 90 days to continue operating if there is evidence that ByteDance is making significant progress toward divestment.
Mr Trump’s embrace of TikTok is a reversal from 2020, when he tried to block the app in the United States and force it to be sold to American companies because it was Chinese-owned.
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