America.. awaits the Supreme Court’s decision regarding the possible ban on “Tik Tok”

The US Supreme Court is expected to issue a decision later today, Friday, on the case related to whether the TikTok platform should be closed within the next few days, under a federal law that seeks to force its sale by the Chinese company that owns the application that is used by 170 million people in the United States. .
The judiciary is examining the challenge posed by freedom of expression against the national security concerns that prompted the enactment of the law, which takes effect on Sunday, and which received broad bipartisan support last year.

Tik Tok platform

TikTok’s lawyer said that the Chinese company that owns the application, ByteDance, said in the court session last week that TikTok would stop working on Sunday unless the Supreme Court granted a temporary suspension or repealed the law.
During the court’s deliberations, most of the justices appeared inclined to support the law. In the context of the ongoing case, an opportunity to save TikTok has emerged. President-elect Donald Trump’s national security advisor, Florida Representative Mike Waltz, said in a television interview on Wednesday that Trump is considering options to “preserve” TikTok.

Technology companies

It is unclear what powers Trump has to intervene, though he may direct the Justice Department not to enforce the law that threatens to impose sanctions on the technology companies that provide and host the app.
The Supreme Court indicated on Thursday that it would issue at least one decision on Friday, in keeping with its practice of not announcing which decision will be made.

But it deviated from its usual practices in some aspects, raising expectations that the issue related to the TikTok application would be the one to be decided.