Attorney Alan Dershowitz appeared on Newsmax Friday to criticize the U.S. Supreme Court's unanimous decision to uphold the TikTok ban, calling it a “B-minus” that “looks like a first draft written by a law clerk.” He called it an initiative.
Supreme Court on Friday supported The decision is to ban TikTok in the United States for national security reasons unless its Chinese parent company ByteDance sells TikTok. Monaka exterior Dershowitz defended TikTok's right to operate on “On the Record with Greta Van Susteren'' and criticized the ban for blocking access to millions of users.
“that [the Supreme Court’s decision] I was able to get through it quickly. It passed all the criteria that had to be applied, and everything was wrong,” Dershowitz said. “I don't like TikTok. I wish it would have lost out in the marketplace of ideas. But the idea of denying access to 170 million people based on national security speculation is a serious threat to America's national security.” It won't have any positive impact on protection.”
Dershowitz said he believed the unanimous decision reflected broader issues within the Supreme Court.
“The reason the Supreme Court made this decision is because there are no civil libertarians on the United States Supreme Court. There are leftists, there are conservatives, and Gorsuch is probably the closest thing to that.” said Dershowitz. “Scalia was a civil libertarian. But today there are no true civil libertarians on the Supreme Court. There are no true liberals on the American Civil Liberties Union. There are no true liberals on the American Civil Liberties Union today. There are no true civil libertarians.”
Dershowitz cited past Supreme Court justices, saying they are true civil libertarians who advocate free speech.
“Beyond Hugo Black, William Douglas, Arthur Goldberg, and all the true civil libertarians who understood the virtue and value of free speech, not this court. That’s why they are nothing. It was denying the right to free speech,” Dershowitz said. (Related article: 'The most corrupt thing I've ever seen': Halperin says Biden's farewell speech proves he shouldn't serve as prime minister for another term) speak)
TikTok has consistently refuted allegations that it has ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). However, a former senior ByteDance employee said that CCP members within the company had “superuser” capabilities and “backdoor channels” that allowed them to access US users' data.
Additionally, research conducted by the Network Infection Research Institute and Rutgers University suggests that TikTok frequently features content aligned with the policies of the Chinese Communist Party. The platform collects data on Americans' political preferences and faces accusations that it illegally collects information about children.
In response, TikTok filed a lawsuit to block enforcement of laws that would force a sale or prohibit it from doing business. Additionally, Chinese embassy officials actively opposed the bill, lobbying against it on Capitol Hill during a parliamentary visit last spring.
In April, President Joe Biden signed The law requires Chinese-owned social media platforms to be sold to non-Chinese companies within a year or face a ban. Three judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit unanimously found TikTok to be a potential national security threat on December 6, highlighting the application's ties to the Chinese government and banning it. The judgment was in the affirmative.
President-elect Donald Trump said he would address the issue “through political means once I take office.” Trump previously tried to ban the app through an executive order, but reversed his stance and publicly criticized the bill against TikTok. He argued that banning social media platforms could give Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook an unintended advantage.
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