The court agreed with TikTok that this is a First Amendment issue — rejecting government claims that, among other things, TikTok’s foreign ownership should strip it of speech protections.

The Supreme Court categorically rejected the argument that the mere regulation of an algorithm raises First Amendment ...

A US appeals court upheld a law that could result in TikTok being banned in the United States. The court denied TikTok’s argument that the law was unconstitutional and the judges found that the law ...

Denying TikTok’s argument that the law was unconstitutional, the judges found that the law does not “contravene the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States,” nor does it ...

"It’s a strong stand for the First Amendment and against arbitrary censorship. We will work with President Trump on a long-term solution that keeps TikTok in the United States." Related ...

The data-protection rationale, all three judges agreed, did not present First Amendment concerns. The desire to prevent the PRC’s manipulation of content on TikTok was, however, another matter.

It’s a strong stand for the First Amendment and against arbitrary censorship. We will work with President Trump on a long-term solution that keeps TikTok in the United States.

So the D.C. Circuit just held in TikTok v. Garland, written by Judge Douglas Ginsburg, and joined by Judge Neomi Rao. Some key excerpts from the panel majority: To summarize our First Amendment ...

Both President Joe Biden and President-elect Donald Trump (during his first term in office) supported policies seeking to divorce TikTok from ByteDance, at least within the United States ...

Many will read last week’s federal appeals-court opinion that could ban TikTok as a loss for the First Amendment, and in some ways it is.If TikTok disappears from the United States, some 170 ...

TikTok, HamHom, and the First Amendment Eugene Volokh | 1.15.2025 10:11 AM I was having a conversation with my Stanford colleague Diego Zambrano, and this perspective on the TikTok case emerged.

TikTok is warning of some wide-ranging ... arguing that it violates the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment protection ... until Jan. 19 to sell the platform or face a ban in the United States.