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WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

Does Congress's TikTok Ban Violate the First Amendment?

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The Wall Street Journal

News, Society & Culture

4.22.8K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals hears arguments over a law that says TikTok must be divested from its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, to stay in U.S. app stores. Why did the judges seem skeptical of the company's challenge, and will it end up at the Supreme Court? Plus, Boeing starts furloughs amid a strike by machinists, who turned down a 25% raise over four years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

0:24.3

Congress's ban on tick-time goes to court and maybe eventually to the Supreme Court.

0:30.4

Meantime, Boeing begins furlowing workers amid a strike by the International Association of

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Machinists and Aerospace Workers.

0:38.8

Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal.

0:42.6

We are joined today by my colleagues, columnist Alicia Finley, and editorial board member

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Manet Uque Barua.

0:50.3

Earlier this year, Congress passed a law that requires the social media app

0:55.6

Tic-Toc to be divested from its Chinese parent company bite dance by early next

1:01.7

year or it will be banned from distribution and updating by US-run

1:06.9

App Stores. This has now gone to court at the DC Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday, an appeal before a three-judge panel, the company

1:16.9

challenging it along with some of its creators on First Amendment grounds.

1:22.1

Let's start with a clip of Judge Naomi Rao tangling

1:25.6

with the US government's lawyer on the case. I mean so Tik-Tok US is a US

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corporation. I mean it's a wholly owned subsidiary of Bight Dance,

1:34.6

but it is a US corporation.

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I mean, what about the First Amendment interest there?

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