TikTok’s options for staving off a ban are dwindling. The platform on Monday made an emergency request to the Supreme Court, asking it to delay the ban while reiterating its argument that the ban violates the First Amendment. TikTok noted that if the law goes into effect as scheduled it “will shutter one of America’s most popular speech platforms the day before a presidential inauguration.” TikTok asked the Supreme Court to act by Jan. 6.
Frank McCourt, the billionaire former owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers, believes ByteDance selling TikTok to him is the most viable way the platform can continue to exist in the United States. “Like President-elect Trump and like the creators, we don’t want to see this ban,” he recently told Rolling Stone. “We think this could be an awesome platform, and be a catalyst for a new, upgraded internet.”
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