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TikTok has asked the US Supreme Court (SCOTUS) to temporarily stay the company's operating ban order that will take effect on January 19, 2025. The ban is imposed because ByteDance did not sell TikTok to a non-Chinese company as requested by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) in March.
TikTok appealed to SCOTUS on the basis that the ban is seen as a violation of the right to free speech enshrined in the US constitution. It was also emphasized that small companies in the US would lose $1 billion in revenue and influencers $300 million a day if the ban order continues.
ByteDance stated that selling TikTok is impossible because it would take years for new engineers to understand TikTok's source code. Meanwhile, China also opposes the sale of the app because it violates laws on the sale of sensitive domestic algorithms.
If this appeal is still rejected, the TikTok app will have to be removed from the Android Play Store and Apple App Store starting in mid-January next year.