WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday unanimously upheld the federal law banning TikTok beginning Sunday unless it’s sold by its China-based parent company, holding that the risk to national security posed by its ties to China overcomes concerns about limiting speech by the app or its 170 million users in the United States.
A sale does not appear imminent and, although experts have said the app will not disappear from existing users’ phones once the law takes effect, new users won’t be able to download it and updates won’t be available. That will eventually render the app unworkable, the Justice Department has said in court filings.
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This, my maga loving morons, is called an oligarchy. This is what you voted for. Trump was the original anti TikTok moron. But this election cycle, he realized how easy it was to spread his propaganda to simpletons so he's going to pretend to"revive" to TikTok. He'll fail like he does everything else.
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