{"id":894787,"date":"2025-01-13T07:26:34","date_gmt":"2025-01-13T01:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=894787"},"modified":"2025-01-13T07:37:39","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T02:07:39","slug":"us-sc-seems-likely-to-uphold-federal-law-to-shut-down-tiktok-on-jan-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/01\/13\/us-sc-seems-likely-to-uphold-federal-law-to-shut-down-tiktok-on-jan-19\/","title":{"rendered":"US SC seems likely to uphold federal law to shut down TikTok on Jan 19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on Friday seemed likely to uphold a law that would ban TikTok in the United States beginning January 19 unless the popular social media programme is sold by its China-based parent company.<\/p>\n<p>Hearing arguments in a momentous clash of free speech and national security concerns, the justices seemed persuaded by arguments that the national security threat posed by the company&#8217;s connections to China override concerns about restricting the speech, either of TikTok or its 170 million users in the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on Friday seemed likely to uphold a law that would ban TikTok in the United States beginning January 19 unless the popular social media programme is sold by its China-based parent company. Hearing arguments in a momentous clash of free speech and national security concerns, the justices seemed persuaded by arguments that the national security threat posed by the company&#8217;s connections to China override concerns about restricting the speech, either of TikTok or its 170 million users in the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-894787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-telecom-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=894787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=894787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=894787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=894787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}