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TikTok faces US government in Supreme Court: Chinese government could weaponize it at any time

2025-01-10 18:09:47Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
TikTok faces US government in Supreme Court: Chinese government could weaponize
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Legal representatives of the social network TikTok are facing off in the US Supreme Court after a ruling requiring the Chinese-owned social network to be sold to non-Chinese investors or be banned in the US.

This law enters into force on January 19.

Judge Amy Coney Barrett asked TikTok's lawyer, Noel Francisco, why the Chinese company "ByteDance" is so stubbornly refusing to sell the social network.

“You keep saying shut down. The law doesn’t say TikTok has to shut down. It says ByteDance has to give up TikTok. If ByteDance left TikTok, we wouldn’t be here, right? If ByteDance was willing to let you go and wanted to let you get the “source code,” wouldn’t that be great?… Why is it impossible to give up in 270 days, even assuming the Chinese government didn’t tell you it couldn’t?”

Francisco replied: “There are two basic reasons. The first is that the underlying source code requires a team of engineers to create and maintain. It would take us many years to rebuild a new team of engineers to do that. Regarding content sharing, in theory, we could send our salespeople around the world to re-register all of our users on a new platform.”

Elizabeth Prelogar, the US Attorney General, said in her opening statement, "The Chinese government could weaponize TikTok at any time to harm the United States."

“The Chinese government’s control of TikTok poses a major threat to national security. No one disputes that the People’s Republic of China seeks to undermine U.S. interests by collecting vast amounts of sensitive data on Americans and engaging in covert influence operations. No one disputes that China pursues those goals by forcing companies like ByteDance to secretly hand over data and comply with Chinese government directives,” she said.

The law that led to these arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court says ByteDance must either sell TikTok to a non-Chinese owner or restrict access to the app in the U.S. TikTok has said the investment is “not technologically, commercially or legally feasible.” Beijing has indicated it would not approve such a sale.


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