TikTok v. Garland (2025) | The First Amendment Encyclopedia
Jan 23, 2025 · TikTok owners claimed law violated U.S. speech protections As this Jan. 19 deadline approached and TikTok remained under ByteDance ownership, it brought suit against the law, defended by Attorney General Merrick Garland, on the basis that it violated the First Amendment freedom of speech .
A national TikTok ban and the First Amendment
Mar 22, 2024 · The recent House passage of a bill banning TikTok from app stores in the United States has ignited a national constitutional discussion about free speech and public security. On March 13, 2024, the House of Representatives passed the …
TikTok v. Garland: Does the Federal Law Restricting TikTok …
address whether legislation restricting the social media platform TikTok violates the First Amendment.
TikTok warns US ban would 'trample free speech' - BBC
Apr 21, 2024 · TikTok says a potential ban on its app in the US would "trample the free speech" of 170 million Americans. The US House of Representatives voted on Saturday to ban TikTok if the app's owner...
Free speech scholars skeptical that TikTok ban survives ... - NPR
May 14, 2024 · Forcing TikTok to shut down its American operations over unspecified national security concerns would represent a violation of the First Amendment, according to six legal scholars surveyed by...
Takeaways from the Supreme Court’s TikTok decision and what it …
Jan 17, 2025 · The Supreme Court’s remarkably speedy decision Friday to allow a controversial ban on TikTok to take hold will have a dramatic impact on the tens of millions of Americans who visit the app every ...
Banning TikTok is Unconstitutional. The Supreme Court Must Step …
Jan 15, 2025 · Banning TikTok is unprecedented, unconstitutional, and un-American. If the Supreme Court allows the government to shut down an entire platform on such a flimsy evidentiary record, it would set a disturbing precedent for …
TikTok and Free Speech: TikTok’s First Amendment Case Against …
Oct 28, 2024 · TikTok and several TikTok content creators have sued the Attorney General of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia (“Court of Appeals”), alleging that the Act violates their First Amendment rights.
TikTok's fate arrives at Supreme Court in collision of free speech ...
Jan 9, 2025 · TikTok says it plans to shut down the social media site in the U.S. by Jan. 19 unless the Supreme Court strikes down or otherwise delays the effective date of a law aimed at forcing TikTok’s sale by its Chinese parent company.
Highlights of the Supreme Court Argument on TikTok
Jan 10, 2025 · Here’s Prelogar’s argument in a nutshell for why the law does not violate the First Amendment: “All of the same speech that’s happening on TikTok could happen post-divestiture. The act ...