{"id":19644,"date":"2025-01-09T09:01:44","date_gmt":"2025-01-09T10:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=19644"},"modified":"2025-01-09T10:25:04","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T10:25:04","slug":"tiktok-case-before-supreme-court-pits-national-security-against-free-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=19644","title":{"rendered":"TikTok Case Before Supreme Court Pits National Security Against Free Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The court, which hears arguments on Friday in a challenge to a law banning the app, has issued varying rulings when those two interests clashed.<\/p>\n

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When the Supreme Court hears arguments on Friday over whether protecting national security requires TikTok to be sold or closed, the justices will be working in the shadow of three First Amendment precedents, all influenced by the climate of their times and by how much the justices trusted the government.<\/p>\n

During the Cold War and in the Vietnam era, the court refused to credit the government\u2019s assertions that national security required limiting what newspapers could publish and what Americans could read. More recently, though, the court deferred to Congress\u2019s judgment that combating terrorism justified making some kinds of speech a crime.<\/p>\n

The court will most likely act quickly, as TikTok faces a Jan. 19 deadline under a law enacted in April by bipartisan majorities. The law\u2019s sponsors said the app\u2019s parent company, ByteDance, is controlled by China and could use it to harvest Americans\u2019 private data and to spread covert disinformation.<\/p>\n

The court\u2019s decision will determine the fate of a powerful and pervasive cultural phenomenon<\/a> that uses a sophisticated algorithm to feed a personalized array of short videos to its 170 million users in the United States. For many of them, and particularly younger ones, TikTok has become a leading source of information and entertainment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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As in earlier cases pitting national security against free speech, the core question for the justices is whether the government\u2019s judgments about the threat TikTok is said to pose are sufficient to overcome the nation\u2019s commitment to free speech.<\/p>\n

Senator Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky, told the justices<\/a> that he \u201cis second to none in his appreciation and protection of the First Amendment\u2019s right to free speech.\u201d But he urged them to uphold the law.<\/p>\n

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The court, which hears arguments on Friday in a challenge to a law banning the app, has issued varying rulings when those two interests clashed.When the Supreme Court hears arguments on Friday over whether protecting national security requires TikTok to be sold or closed, the justices will be working in the shadow of three First Amendment precedents, all influenced by the climate of their times and by how much the justices trusted the government.During the Cold War and in the Vietnam era, the court refused to credit the government\u2019s assertions that national security required limiting what newspapers could publish and what Americans could read. More recently, though, the court deferred to Congress\u2019s judgment that combating terrorism justified making some kinds of speech a crime.The court will most likely act quickly, as TikTok faces a Jan. 19 deadline under a law enacted in April by bipartisan majorities. The law\u2019s sponsors said the app\u2019s parent company, ByteDance, is controlled by China and could use it to harvest Americans\u2019 private data and to spread covert disinformation.The court\u2019s decision will determine the fate of a powerful and pervasive cultural phenomenon that uses a sophisticated algorithm to feed a personalized array of short videos to its 170 million users in the United States. For many of them, and particularly younger ones, TikTok has become a leading source of information and entertainment.As in earlier cases pitting national security against free speech, the core question for the justices is whether the government\u2019s judgments about the threat TikTok is said to pose are sufficient to overcome the nation\u2019s commitment to free speech.Senator Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky, told the justices that he \u201cis second to none in his appreciation and protection of the First Amendment\u2019s right to free speech.\u201d But he urged them to uphold the law.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":19646,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19644","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\/19644","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=19644"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19647,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19644\/revisions\/19647"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}