On Friday, a federal appeals court rejected an emergency bid by TikTok to temporarily block a law that would have required Chinese parent company ByteDance to sell the short video app by January 19.
TikTok and ByteDance filed an emergency motion Monday with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, asking for more time to take the case to the U.S. Supreme Court. Friday's ruling means Tiktok must immediately go to the Supreme Court to halt the pending ban.
The companies warned that without a court case, the law would “shut down TikTok, one of the country's most popular audio platforms, to its more than 170 million monthly users in the country.” I was doing it.
“Appellants do not identify a case in which a court has rejected a constitutional challenge to a Congressional law and then halted its enactment pending review in the Supreme Court.'' D.C. Circuit the court stated.
TikTok did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Under this law, TikTok will be banned unless ByteDance sells it by January 19th. The law also gives the U.S. government broad powers to ban other foreign-owned apps that may raise concerns about data collection on Americans.
The Department of Justice claims that “China's continued control of the TikTok application poses a continuing threat to national security.”
TikTok has been accused by the Department of Justice of misrepresenting the social media app's ties to China, and while its content recommendation engine and user data are stored in the United States on cloud servers operated by Oracle, It claims that its content moderation decisions are made in the United States.
