https://www.siliconvalley.com/2024/12/14/opinion-tiktok-case-staggering-implications-free-speech-america/

The free speech implications of the coming ban on TikTok in the United States are staggering and unprecedented. This month, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld a federal law that requires TikTok to stop operating here on Jan. 19 if its owner, ByteDance, does not sell it to a non-Chinese company. The 150 million Americans who use TikTok to share and receive information no longer would be able to do so.

In upholding the law, D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals minimized the 1st Amendment impact of banning TikTok, while uncritically accepting the federal government’s claim that national security is threatened by this app.