{"id":19333,"date":"2025-01-03T22:15:38","date_gmt":"2025-01-03T23:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=19333"},"modified":"2025-01-03T23:26:28","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T23:26:28","slug":"tiktok-and-government-clash-in-last-round-of-supreme-court-briefs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=19333","title":{"rendered":"TikTok and Government Clash in Last Round of Supreme Court Briefs"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The briefs, filed a week before oral arguments, offered sharply differing accounts of China\u2019s influence over the site and the role of the First Amendment.<\/p>\n

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The two sides in the momentous clash at the Supreme Court over a measure that could shut down TikTok made their closing written arguments on Friday, sharply disputing China\u2019s influence over the site and the role the First Amendment should play in evaluating the law.<\/p>\n

Their briefs, filed on an exceptionally abbreviated schedule set last month by the justices, were part of a high-stakes showdown over the government\u2019s insistence that ByteDance, TikTok\u2019s parent company, sell the app\u2019s operations in the United States or shut it down. The Supreme Court, in an effort to resolve the case before the law\u2019s Jan. 19 deadline, will hear arguments at a special session next Friday.<\/p>\n

The court\u2019s ruling, which could come this month, will decide the fate of a powerful and pervasive cultural phenomenon<\/a> that uses a sophisticated algorithm to feed a personalized array of short videos to users. TikTok has become, particularly for younger generations, a leading source of information and entertainment.<\/p>\n

\u201cRarely if ever has the court confronted a free-speech case that matters to so many people,\u201d a brief filed Friday<\/a> on behalf of a group of TikTok users said. \u201c170 million Americans use TikTok on a regular basis to communicate, entertain themselves, and follow news and current events. If the government prevails here, users in America will lose access to the platform\u2019s billions of videos.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The briefs made only glancing or indirect references to President-elect Donald J. Trump\u2019s unusual request<\/a> last week that the Supreme Court temporarily block the law so that he can address the matter once he takes office.<\/p>\n

The deadline set by the law for TikTok to be sold or shut down is Jan. 19, the day before Mr. Trump\u2019s inauguration.<\/p>\n

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The briefs, filed a week before oral arguments, offered sharply differing accounts of China\u2019s influence over the site and the role of the First Amendment.The two sides in the momentous clash at the Supreme Court over a measure that could shut down TikTok made their closing written arguments on Friday, sharply disputing China\u2019s influence over the site and the role the First Amendment should play in evaluating the law.Their briefs, filed on an exceptionally abbreviated schedule set last month by the justices, were part of a high-stakes showdown over the government\u2019s insistence that ByteDance, TikTok\u2019s parent company, sell the app\u2019s operations in the United States or shut it down. The Supreme Court, in an effort to resolve the case before the law\u2019s Jan. 19 deadline, will hear arguments at a special session next Friday.The court\u2019s ruling, which could come this month, will decide the fate of a powerful and pervasive cultural phenomenon that uses a sophisticated algorithm to feed a personalized array of short videos to users. TikTok has become, particularly for younger generations, a leading source of information and entertainment.\u201cRarely if ever has the court confronted a free-speech case that matters to so many people,\u201d a brief filed Friday on behalf of a group of TikTok users said. \u201c170 million Americans use TikTok on a regular basis to communicate, entertain themselves, and follow news and current events. If the government prevails here, users in America will lose access to the platform\u2019s billions of videos.\u201dThe briefs made only glancing or indirect references to President-elect Donald J. Trump\u2019s unusual request last week that the Supreme Court temporarily block the law so that he can address the matter once he takes office.The deadline set by the law for TikTok to be sold or shut down is Jan. 19, the day before Mr. Trump\u2019s inauguration.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19335,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19333"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19336,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19333\/revisions\/19336"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}