The US government’s war against the application continues relentlessly TikTok. The Federal Court on Friday District of Columbia confirmed that the American law requiring the app to sever ties with the China or to be banned in the United States it is perfectly constitutional. Therefore, the hopes were dashed TikTokwho had invoked the First Amendment regarding freedom of expression.
The bill to ban the social media controlled by China ByteDance it passed the US Congress on April 23, with bipartisan consensus. The law provided the only saving grace to avoid the blackout by divesting US assets, that is, selling the “American version” of the app to a non-Chinese owner. Approximately 170 million American users therefore risk seeing the Chinese app disappear from their smartphones if it does not comply with the law by January 19, 2025.
There Federal Court he further added that “the First Amendment exists to protect free speech in United States and with this law the government acted solely to protect that freedom from a hostile foreign nation and to limit that adversary’s ability to collect Americans’ private data.”
The fact that applications are used to collect user data is certainly nothing new, and it is no coincidence that the application has already been banned in India and in other countries, while the same China has banned all major American applications for the same reasons, including Instagram, Whatsapp And Facebookbut also search engines like Google.
ByteDance he appealed to the Supreme Court, on the grounds that the law is a violation of the First Amendment, the same one that the federal court found invalid.
If the blocking of the app were to be confirmed by the Supreme Court, it would be yet another step towards the “regionalisation” of the mobile phone market. global network platformswhere “global network platforms” mean those applications, social media and search engines with a user base measured in billions of people. “Regionalization” lies in the fact that the ever-increasing importance of controlling user data will lead to a significant increase in bans on the use of some of these platforms (such as TikTok, Instagram, Youtube, etc.) in many countries around the world.
This would create a no longer “global” use of many platforms, but only a “regional” one. The process appears to have already begun.
