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TikTok faces a skeptical panel of judges in its existential fight against the US government
The case pits First Amendment interests against national security.
Though the bill seeks a divestment of the app from its Chinese owner ByteDance by a January 19th deadline, the company says the ultimatum is in truth a ban that would stifle the speech of TikTok and its creators, and improperly limit the information Americans are able to receive. The Department of Justice defended the law, saying that it takes appropriate, targeted action against a company that poses a national security risk because of its alleged exposure to a foreign adversary government. Jeffrey Fisher, who argued on a behalf of a group of creator plaintiffs, said that upholding the law could ultimately lead to other limits on Americans’ ability to produce for other media companies with foreign owners, from Politico to Spotify to the BBC.
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