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TikTok has lost its Supreme Court appeal in a 9–0 decision and will likely shut down on January 19, a day before Donald Trump’s inauguration, unless the app can be sold before the deadline, which TikTok has said is impossible. During the trial last Friday, TikTok lawyer Noel Francisco warned SCOTUS that upholding the Biden […]
The US Supreme Court has upheld a law requiring TikTok to be banned unless it secures a non-Chinese buyer by Sunday, January 19. The ruling delivers a significant blow to the app, which has 170 million American users, amid growing concerns over national security risks tied to its Chinese ownership. “There is no doubt that, […]
Soon after Biden signed the bill to ban TikTok in April, the company and a consortium of its users retaliated by filing lawsuits accusing the federal government of violating their First Amendment rights. In December, a federal appeals court upheld the ban law, leaving TikTok with only one legal pathway left to save itself: an […]
Gail Slater, a skeptic of Big Tech, getting the nod for top job within the Justice’s Department’s antitrust effort was great news for America; President-elect Donald Trump should follow it up by naming Andrew Ferguson to chair the Federal Trade Commission. A veteran lawyer who clerked for Justice Clarence Thomas, Ferguson served as counsel for […]
Would it all have turned out differently had InterActiveCorp stared down the online mob? In December 2013, a public relations executive with the company, Justine Sacco, posted a joke on social media, satirising American insularity and racism. Sacco was about to board a flight to South Africa, from where her anti-apartheid family had emigrated, when […]