CNN: Supreme Court Upholds TikTok Divest-or-Ban Law

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REID: "Jim, huge news out of the Supreme Court as the justices uphold a controversial ban on the social media app TikTok. Now, the justices signaled that they would uphold this ban several days ago, when they had oral arguments. This all started last year in April, when Congress, with broad bipartisan support, said that the app would be banned if it didn‘t divest from its parent company, ByteDance, because of concerns over that company‘s ties to China. It‘s a national security concern that has been expressed by presidents of both parties. Specifically, the concern, Jim, is that this app is collecting data, massive amounts of data from all of its users, and then potentially that data could be used by the Chinese government, especially in the event of a crisis, to sow discord in this country or otherwise jeopardize national security. Now TikTok, they were challenging this ban, arguing that this was a violation of the First Amendment. And when they heard arguments a few days ago, it‘s a rare day when you see sort of a unanimous consensus across the bench. But it was clear that the justices on both sides of the aisle were skeptical about this First Amendment argument. So, as of now, unless TikTok, again, divests from its parent company by Sunday, this app could be rendered inoperable for many of its 170 million users so far. This is definitely the biggest decision out of the Supreme Court this term, Jim."