The TikTok ban seems likely to happen

thefader.com:

Justices on the Supreme Court indicated during oral arguments held on Friday that they were leaning toward signing off on legislation that would lead to a ban of TikTok unless it is sold by its present owners, Forbes reports.

In May 2024, President Biden signed a law requiring ByteDance, the Chinese company that owns and operates TikTok, to sell the company before January 19, 2025, or effectively get shut down.

The legislation was crafted in response to concerns over user privacy and ByteDance's connection to China's government. ByteDance has repeatedly maintained that the company operates independently and that the U.S government has not proven that the app has ever given user information to China.

During Friday's hearing, both the court's liberal and conservative justices expressed skepticism at ByteDance's legal arguments, which claim that legislation forcing a sale violates the First Amendment rights of its users.