BREAKING: Supreme Court Upholds TikTok Ban in Unanimous 9-0 Decision

The Supreme Court has decided to uphold a law to ban TikTok over national security concerns, effectively putting the wildly popular social media platform on life support for millions of users in the United States.

The bipartisan bill, signed into law by President Joe Biden, clearly states that TikTok will be officially banned in the United States on Sunday, January 19th, unless its parent company, ByteDance, can find a divestment strategy with an investor that follows stricter data regulations.

Since TikTok is ostensibly a Chinese-owned company, all of the behavioral and declarative data it tracks — just like American tech companies like Facebook, Google, and X do — can be readily accessed by the People’s Republic of China, which renders it a national security threat in the eyes of both Republican and Democratic lawmakers.

While serving in the White House during his first term, then-President Donald Trump signed an executive order to ban the Chinese-owned video-sharing platform in August 2020. Over the past four years, however, Trump’s campaign team found TikTok a very effective medium for sharing their America First and MAGA agenda. As a result, Trump and his surrogates’ position has changed.

Rep. Mike Waltz (R-FL), Trump’s pick to become his National Security Advisor, recently signaled on Fox & Friends that Trump intends to sign an Executive Order designed to stay the ban or give ByteDance more time to find a new owner. “We’ll keep it from going dark,” Waltz said, though it’s not clear how an executive order can override a bill already signed into law.

During arguments heard last week, Chief Justice John Roberts signaled this decision by asking, “Are we supposed to ignore the fact” that TikTok’s parent company “is, in fact, subject to doing intelligence work for the Chinese government?”

Its not yet clear what this looks like for TikTok users. The law states that US users can no longer download the application from Android and Apple devices. TikTok appears to be taking a more strident action, however, by signalling it will cut all access to current users of the platform.

The ruling was a unanimous 9-0 decision, with concurring opinions from Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Neil Gorsuch.

This is a developing story and has been updated.

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