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Why would I want to get rid of TikTok?"
On Truth Social, Trump questioned the ban's necessity, posting
By all means, TikTok is a conservative platform now - if you take a look at how Trump dominated his competition, there’s no argument against the value this platform has, and I don’t think there’s a world where Trump doesn’t fulfill his promise to save it,
the strategist said
Today, President Donald J. Trump has filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court asking the Court to extend the deadline that would cause TikTok’s imminent shutdown, and allow President Trump the opportunity to resolve the issue in a way that saves TikTok and preserves American national security once he resumes office as President of the United States on January 20, 2025,
Trump spokesman and incoming White House Communications Director Steven Cheung told Fox News Digital last monthThe Trump administration had this right the first time when they planned to ban TikTok through executive authority for the very same concerns that exist today. Political strategists salivating over clicks and followers does not mean that the national security implications have changed,
Chapman saidWe're talking about an app that nearly 200 million Americans, 75% of whom are Gen Z, use every single day as our primary source of news, and according to some studies, even as our primary web browser search tool, so more than Google … and I have found that the opportunity for virality – to have a conversation with as many people as possible – on Tiktok is unparalleled on any other social media platform,
Brown saidHeck, we even have records of Airbnb selling American data to the Chinese Communist Party. So there doesn't seem to be a lot of willingness to truly protect the cyber and personal information security of American citizens from the government en masse, it seems to only be focused on TikTok as a platform itself,
Brown continuedTrump won the election because he listened to first-time voters like myself and joined TikTok to get his message to us directly,
RNC Youth Advisory Council Chair Brilyn Hollyhand told Fox News Digital of the impending banPresident Donald J. Trump (‘President Trump’) is the 45th and soon to be the 47th President of the United States of America,
the brief statesThe topsy-turvy idea that TikTok has an expressive right to facilitate the CCP censorship regime is absurd,
McConnell’s counsel Michael A. Fragoso wrote in the friend of the court briefThe TikTok ban is controversial, I see two sides to it. I see it as an app that’s very left leaning and consumes way too much of people’s time but it is sometimes the only place I get info about stories that should be breaking world wide. At the same time it can be dangerous. It can radicalize young people. One day you wake up on TikTok and young Americans are saying they’re supportive of Osama bin Laden,
Wilson told Fox DigitalThe CCP does not respect free speech, either in China or in America. The First Amendment is not, and should not be read as, a means of granting the Chinese government the power to do what the American government could not: manipulate what Americans can say and hear,
the group wroteIt seems to be an app leaning towards being anti-American and brainwashing young kids. At the end of the day, if I say to ban it it’s hypocritical against free speech. I just don’t want it harming young people,
she addedI have done, if not, the deepest possible dive on all of the concerns associated with the platform, especially for my daily show when I share my opinions and commentary on what's going on in culture and politics,
TikTok creator and TPUSA commentator Isabel Brown, who has more than 500,000 followers on TikTok, told Fox Digital in a phone interviewRarely, if ever, has the Court confronted a free-speech case that matters to so many people,
a brief filed on behalf of TikTok creators reads
If the Court upholds the law, it will almost certainly do so on relatively narrow grounds,
says Alan Rozenshtein, an associate professor at the University of Minnesota Law SchoolThis unfortunate timing, ... interferes with President Trump’s ability to manage the United States’ foreign policy and to pursue a resolution to both protect national security and save a social-media platform that provides a popular vehicle for 170 million Americans to exercise their core First Amendment rights.”
his brief saidSupreme Court Justices throughout history do not want to antagonize the President unnecessarily, ... but at the same time, what Trump is asking for is lawless…There's no basis in law for the court to delay a duly enacted law for some indeterminate amount of time so as to give the President the ability to do something unspecified.”
he says
If TikTok comes into compliance with the law," such as a U.S. buyer purchasing the app, then "there is no need for the Court to resolve this issue,
Blackman said,
To ban an entire communications platform used by tens of millions of Americans, the government must meet an extraordinarily high bar: It must show that the ban is the only way to prevent serious, imminent harm to national security, and that the ban limits no more speech than necessary to accomplish that purpose,
the ACLU wrote on its webpageTikTok is digital fentanyl, a 21st-century technological weapon being used by the Chinese Communist Party to target the American people,
Pence said in a statement to the Washington Examiner last month