On Tuesday, TikTok asked the US Supreme Court (SCOTUS) to temporarily stay the company's ban, which is set to take effect on January 19, 2025. SCOTUS has now said it will hear the appeal on January 10 next year.
TikTok is appealing to SCOTUS on the grounds that the ban violates the constitutionally protected freedom of expression of more than 170 million TikTok users in the US. It is also emphasized that small companies in the US will lose $1 billion in revenue and influencers $300 million a day if the ban continues.
ByteDance has stated that selling TikTok is impossible because it takes 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. Store owners who still offer the app could face fines.