{"id":895243,"date":"2025-01-13T09:39:22","date_gmt":"2025-01-13T04:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=895243"},"modified":"2025-01-13T10:25:13","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T04:55:13","slug":"united-states-supreme-court-likely-to-uphold-law-in-favour-of-tiktok-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/01\/13\/united-states-supreme-court-likely-to-uphold-law-in-favour-of-tiktok-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"United States: Supreme Court likely to uphold law in favour of TikTok ban"},"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":[4,85,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-895243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-telegraph","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895243","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=895243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=895243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=895243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=895243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}