TikTok Ban: ByteDance Asks To Pause Ruling Until Supreme Court—And Trump Weigh In

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TikTok asked a federal court Monday to pause its ruling upholding the federal government’s law that could ban the app in the coming weeks, as the company wants the law to remain on pause while it asks the Supreme Court to take up the case—and so President-elect Donald Trump will have time to try and block the ban himself.  Read the full story on Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2024/12/09/tiktok-asks-to-pause-ban-while-it-appeals-to-supreme-court/  Subscribe to FORBES: https://www.youtube.com/user/Forbes?sub_confirmation=1  Fuel your success with Forbes. Gain unlimited access to premium journalism, including breaking news, groundbreaking in-depth reported stories, daily digests and more. Plus, members get a front-row seat at members-only events with leading thinkers and doers, access to premium video that can help you get ahead, an ad-light experience, early access to select products including NFT drops and more:  https://account.forbes.com/membership/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=display&utm_campaign=growth_non-sub_paid_subscribe_ytdescript  Stay Connected Forbes newsletters: https://newsletters.editorial.forbes.com Forbes on Facebook: http://fb.com/forbes Forbes Video on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/forbes Forbes Video on Instagram: http://instagram.com/forbes More From Forbes:  http://forbes.com  Forbes covers the intersection of entrepreneurship, wealth, technology, business and lifestyle with a focus on people and success.

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00:00TikTok asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to impose an injunction that

00:05would pause its ruling, which upheld the law requiring TikTok to divest from Chinese parent

00:11company ByteDance or else be banned from U.S. app stores.

00:16TikTok asked a federal court to pause its ruling, meaning the law won't take effect,

00:22as the company wants the law to remain on pause while it asks the Supreme Court to take

00:26up the case, and so President-elect Donald Trump will have time to try and block the

00:31ban himself.

00:33TikTok argued that the Supreme Court should, quote, have an opportunity to decide whether

00:38to review this exceptionally important case before the law takes effect.

00:44Trump reportedly wants to stop the TikTok ban, and the company argued that as a result

00:49there's

00:50"...a reasonable possibility that the new administration will pause enforcement of

00:54the act or otherwise mitigate its most severe potential consequences," even though legal

00:59experts have suggested that there isn't a foolproof way for Trump to block the law.

01:05The company argued that banning the app while the case is appealed would inflict extreme

01:10and irreparable harm for TikTok and its users, alleging shutting down the app even temporarily

01:16would

01:17"...deprive TikTok's base of 170 million monthly users and creators of access to one

01:21of the country's most popular speech platforms, destroy TikTok's ability to attract advertisers,

01:28and cripple petitioners' ability to recruit and retain talent."

01:32TikTok asked the appeals court to rule on whether it will pause the law by Dec. 16.

01:38For more on this story, check out Alison Durkee's article in the link in the description.

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