TikTok Braces for Supreme Court Showdown with Washington

WSJ Tech News Briefing

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🗓️ 10 January 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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TikTok is making a last-ditch effort to block the law that will ban it within the U.S. today. The Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments on a case that will decide the Chinese-owned app’s future in the U.S. WSJ reporter Jess Bravin joins host James Rundle to discuss what the arguments on both sides are likely to be. Plus, how Uber and Lyft are planning to deal with robotaxis. Sign up for the WSJ's free Technology newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:33.7	Welcome to Tech News Briefing. It's Friday, January the 10th. I'm James Rundle for the Wall Street Journal.
0:39.8	The Supreme Court is due to hear arguments today on a case that will decide TikTok's future
0:44.1	in the United States. Its defenders say they are standing up for free speech, but the government
0:48.9	says the Chinese-owned app is a credible threat to national security. And then, ride-hailing giant Uber once sought to build
0:55.6	a fleet of autonomous taxis. Now it's embracing driverless cars made by competitors and offering
1:01.4	new app features. Our reporter, Prita Karana, joins us to talk about why Uber and Lyft are trying
1:07.3	to find a niche with robo-taxies years after abandoning their projects.
1:13.6	But first, oral arguments are set to begin today in the Supreme Court as TikTok faces off against
1:19.4	the US government. Its Beijing-based parent company Bight Dance was given until January the 19th
1:25.3	to divest itself of TikTok or face a ban in the US.
1:29.2	Can the app used by nearly half the country pull off an 11th hour reprieve?
1:33.6	WSJ reporter Jess Braven joins us to talk about what to expect as TikTok fights for its life in the US.
1:41.0	Jess, what are the arguments you're expecting to hear today from TikTok and its creator community
1:46.0	and from the U.S. government?
1:47.9	TikTok is appealing because they lost at the lower court, and they're going to say that this is
1:52.5	a classic free speech case.
1:54.9	And when the government wants to restrict speech under the First Amendment to the U.S.
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