KEY FACTS:
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia District denied TikTok's request to review the law after both sides requested a ruling by Dec. 6, ahead of the scheduled start of the nationwide ban on Jan. 19.
TikTok and the app's developers are suing the federal government to overturn the ban, which would have forced TikTok out of its Chinese parent company ByteDance or blocked access to U.S. app stores.
TikTok claims the ban violates its First Amendment rights and that a sale to ByteDance is "technically, commercially and legally impossible," and that the government claims the ban violates its First Amendment rights.
And there is concrete evidence to support this claim.
It is kept secret and not made public.
The court ruled that the federal government did not violate TikTok's First Amendment rights because the law does not regulate specific speech on TikTok, and that if TikTok had simply sold ByteDance, for example, opponents would have ultimately concluded that the "new owners" had pooled the same content .
Still not breaking the law, and that the federal government has banned TikTok from "regulating foreigners."
Please don't stop censoring us.
The panel of judges also recognized the government's national security objectives in passing the law, saying it was "absolutely inappropriate" to "ignore the government's risk assessment and overturn the final decision" by invalidating TikTok's claims.
The law, which ByteDance simply repealed, is the "least restrictive" way for the government to advance "compelling national security interests" short of banning the app outright.
TikTok spokesman Michael Hughes criticized the decision in a statement Friday, saying the ban was "based on inaccurate, false and hypothetical information that resulted in direct censorship of the American public," saying it would reflect the "voices" of millions of people on TikTok - User Silence.
When the law comes into force.
Key Quote "We recognize that this decision will have a significant impact on TikTok and its users," the jury's verdict said, but noted that the burden of TikTok's inaccessibility is due to the threat from China. US national security, not the US government. "The First Amendment is designed to protect free speech in the United States, where the government protects that freedom from foreign adversaries and prevents those adversaries from collecting data about people in the United States."
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