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What the act does is it says TikTok cannot do that unless ByteDance executes a qualified divestiture,
Francisco said
Content manipulation is a content-based rationale: We think that this foreign government is going to manipulate content in a way ... that concerns us and may very well affect our national security interests,
Kagan saidWe believe the Court will find the TikTok ban unconstitutional so the over 170 million Americans on our platform can continue to exercise their free speech rights,
a TikTok spokesman said
Instead, he respectfully requests that the court consider staying the act's deadline for divestment of Jan. 19, 2025... thus permitting President Trump's incoming Administration the opportunity to pursue a political resolution of the questions at issue in the case,
Sauer saidThis, in turn, will silence the speech of Applicants and the many Americans who use the platform to communicate about politics, commerce, arts and other matters of public concern,
it addedNow [that] I'm thinking about it, I'm for TikTok, because you need competition,
he saidA majority ... majority of the Court seems to have recognized that is not a run-of-the-mill First Amendment case but that the federal statute that would shut down TikTok in the United States unless its Chinese-controlled parent company sells it was based on important principles of national sovereignty and self defense against a foreign adversary,
said Carrie Severion of the conservative Judicial Crisis Network
Just on the data collection interest, I think Congress and the president were concerned that China was accessing information about millions of Americans, tens of millions of Americans - including teenagers, people in their 20s - that they would use that information over time to develop spies, to turn people, to blackmail people, people who a generation from now will be working in the FBI or the CIA or in the State Department,
said Trump-appointed Justice Brett KavanaughThey would have to conclude that they thought it was likely the challengers, both the corporation and TikTok users challenging the statute, have a significant likelihood of succeeding,
he said
The tricky thing there is could then the operators of TikTok, could they rely on that to continue operating with the current ownership, given that a subsequent administration could sanction them or sue them for having operating in contravention of the statute?"
he saidWe look forward to working with ByteDance, President-elect Trump, and the incoming administration to get this deal done,
McCourt said
There's a good reason for saying that a foreign government, particularly an adversary, does not have free speech rights in the United States,
said Justice Samuel AlitoThis case ultimately boils down to speech,
Francisco saidWe've put forward a proposal to ByteDance,
McCourt said
Such a ban is unprecedented in our country and, if it goes into effect, will cause a far-reaching disruption in Americans' ability to engage with the content and audiences of their choice online,
they saidWe are starving, we are dying, people are in jail for f***ing marijuana charges, we’re in a war that we should not be in in the first place and TikTok is our most pressing concern? I don’t think so,
YouTuber and make-up artist James Charles said in an interview with NBC in March
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You get what you get and you think ‘that’s puzzling’,
Justice Elena Kagan said to laughterTo the extent that the government is concerned that there is covert manipulation, the most direct way to address that concern is disclosure,
Krishnan told The Independent
The national security harm arises from the very fact of a foreign adversary's capacity to secretly manipulate the platform to advance its geopolitical goals in whatever form that kind of covert operation might take,
Prelogar saidI still don't think that Congress could come in and tell Bezos either sell the Post, or shut it down, because that would violate Bezos' rights and the Washington Post's rights,
Francisco said