Supreme Court Upholds TikTok Ban Will Shut Down on Jan 19 [Video]

The Supreme Court has decided to uphold a law to ban TikTok over national security concerns, effectively putting the wildly popular social media platform on life support for millions of users in the United States.

The bipartisan bill, signed into law by President Joe Biden, clearly states that TikTok will be officially banned in the United States on Sunday, January 19th, unless its parent company, ByteDance, can find a divestment strategy with an investor that follows stricter data regulations.

Since TikTok is ostensibly a Chinese-owned company, all of the behavioral and declarative data it tracks — just like American tech companies like Facebook, Google, and X do — can be readily accessed by the People’s Republic of China, which renders it a national security threat in the eyes of both Republican and Democratic lawmakers.

While serving in the White House during his first term, then-President Donald Trump signed an executive orderto ban the Chinese-owned video-sharing platform …