The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously on Friday, upholding the U.S. sell-or-ban legislation on TikTok, set to be enacted this Sunday.
“We are conscious that the cases before us involve new technologies with transformative capabilities. This challenging new context counsels caution on our part,” the Supreme Court ruled on Friday. “As Justice Frankfurter advised 80 years ago in considering the application of established legal rules to the ‘totally new problems’ raised by the airplane and radio, we should take care not to ‘embarrass the future.’”
The Court went on to say, “A TikTok user’s content feed is also shaped by content moderation and filtering decisions. TikTok uses automated and human processes to remove content that violates the platform’s community guidelines.”
“TikTok Inc.’s ultimate parent company is ByteDance Ltd., a privately held…
