US Supreme Court Agrees To Listen To TikTok's Appeals

Illustration of the TikTok application (photo: Unsplash)

JAKARTA - The United States Supreme Court has reportedly agreed to hear the appeal of TikTok's parent company, ByteDance, against a law banning the use of the application.

On January 10, Supreme Court judges will listen to arguments about whether the law of sale and prohibition violates the First Amendment or not.

"We are pleased with today's Supreme Court ruling," TikTok spokesman Michael Hughes said in a statement to TechCrunch.

"We believe the Supreme Court will consider the ban on TikTok unconstitutional so that more than 170 million Americans on our platform can continue to exercise their free speech rights," Hughes said.

Previously, the Chinese-based company asked the Supreme Court on Monday to block the law.

In fact, last week, ByteDance and TikTok filed an emergency motion asking the appeals court to temporarily block the law to give the Supreme Court the opportunity to assess the case.

But at that time, the Federal court rejected it. The court confirmed that the law had been evaluated under strict supervision, so TikTok's claim that this decision violated freedom of expression was no stronger than the concerns about national security issues.

Disputes over TikTok are taking place amid rising trade tensions between the US and China. TikTok rejects accusations of sharing user data with the Chinese government and asserts that this law is a violation of the right to free speech.