RICHMOND, Va. — Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares is urging the Supreme Court to uphold a law that would essentially ban TikTok if the social media app does not make serious security changes soon.
WTVRMiyares released a statement on Friday saying he filed a 40-page amicus brief with the United States Supreme Court supporting the bipartisan “Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act,” which became law in April of this year. The brief was co-led by Montana’s Attorney General, and 20 other states signed in support of it.
The law gave TikTok about nine months to cut ties with its Chinese-owned parent company ByteDance, and if it didn’t, a national ban would take effect Jan. 19.
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The company pushed back, saying the law infringed on its free speech and the free speech of its roughly 170 million users in America. According to CBS News, it also said breaking ties with ByteDance would be nearly impossible due to how the app was built.