The Supreme Court agreed to hear oral arguments on the government’s TikTok ban next month, just days before it’s supposed to take effect. If the Supreme Court upholds the ban, many of the 100,000 independent workers who rely on TikTok as either a primary job or a side gig could face devastating economic consequences. The […]
The Supreme Court has granted TikTok’s request for a hearing on the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications (PAFACA) Act. The act bans TikTok in American markets unless the app’s owner, ByteDance (which is 1 percent owned by the Chinese government), divests from the app by January 19. The Supreme Court will hear the […]
Social media influencers who post their children online often face their share of criticism. But now, if their audience disapproves of their parenting decisions, they could also find themselves being investigated by child protective services (CPS). The latest parent to face a CPS investigation for showing innocuous footage of her children is Hannah Hiatt, an […]
The Supreme Court’s decision to hear the TikTok divestment statute case is better for TikTok than the alternative: The D.C. Circuit had upheld the statute, and now TikTok has a chance to try to reverse that. But it’s not a high chance, I think, chiefly because the D.C. Circuit opinions on the First Amendment were […]
The question presented is: Whether the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, as applied to petitioners, violates the First Amendment. The parties’ briefs are due the same day, Dec. 27, as are friend-of-the-court briefs. Both parties appear to be entitled to file repl Read More Article from Reason.com Reason MagazineThe Reason Magazine website […]