September 15, 2024
I don’t want to overhype this – but tomorrow is an extremely critical day for the future of the TikTok ban.
So if you care at all about the platform, you need to be paying attention. That’s because tomorrow in a federal appeals court in Washington DC TikTok and eight US based TikTok creators are going to be pleading their case to stop the TikTok ban.
In case there was any question — TikTok is still scheduled to be banned by the u-s government in just four months on January 19th unless TikTok and the creators can convince the appeals judges that the law passed by congress back in April was unconstitutional.
Now – tomorrow’s oral argument won’t be the first time the court has heard from TikTok, the US government and these 8 US based creators. There have been multiple briefs filed by all sides which I have covered in a lot of detail on my page.
The US government is arguing that congress has every right to ban TikTok because it is owned by Bytedance a company based in China therefore susceptible to the influence and demands of the Chinese government and therefore a national security threat. I told you all about their arguments in this video.
TikTok and the 8 US based TikTok creators think all of that is bogus. They say TikTok is not a national security threat and they have a big problem with the fact that instead of showing any evidence of any alleged national security threat —this is what the government actually filed in federal court. Pages and pages of redated information. TikTok says even they haven’t been able to see what this is so they don’t know how to defend themselves. They say the government shouldn’t be allowed to prevail with what they call “secret” evidence. TikTok goes on to say – despite this “secret evidence” the fact is – all u-s user data is stored on u-s soil on oracle servers and China has no access to the data.
Oh – and of course there’s the whole argument they make about the ban infringing on not only the first amendment rights of TikTok and the creators suing but they say it also infringes on the first amendment rights of all 170 million TikTok users.
Lastly its important for you to know – you can listen to these court arguments between TikTok, the 8 US based creators and the government. Of course there are no cameras allowed in federal court but the audio of the oral argument will be streamed on the DC appeals court YouTube page.
