The elected US President Donald Trump appealed to the Supreme Court with a request to postpone the extreme period of entry into force of the decision, which provides for the ban on the Chinese social network Tiktok in the country. This is stated in a statement by Trump’s lawyer John Sauer.
Sauer recalled that the corresponding decision will enter into force exactly the day before Trump entered the post.
The lawyer emphasized that Trump, as a new president, will deal with this issue and expects that the decision to ban will be postponed.
President Trump opposed the ban Tiktok in the United States and, after taking office, expects to resolve the problem with the involvement of political funds, the lawyer said.
The US Supreme Court said that on January 10 he hears oral arguments of the parties in the case regarding legal regulation, offering to ban the Chinese social network Tiktok in the United States or sell it to an American company.
Legal regulation that allows prohibiting Tiktok in the USA
Last year, the US administration took a step against Tiktok, which provides for either its sale or its blocking. The platform is accused of providing the Chinese government with access to information about American users. The bill adopted by Congress in March was signed by US President Joe Biden. The Biden administration gave Tiktok the deadline until January 19, 2025 to stop all ties with the Chinese ByTedance.
otherwise the company will be prohibited in the United States, and access to it for users will be blocked.
In turn, Tiktok, who has 170 million users in the United States, filed a petition for the abolition of this law to the appeal, appealing a violation of the freedom of expression and the policy of the Open Internet in the United States. The court rejected Tiktok’s petition for freezing the ban on the platform in the United States.
Donald Trump during his election campaign opposed the decision on Tiktok, which should take effect on the day before his office on January 20, 2025.