ByteDance Ltd., the parent company of TikTok, filed a motion on Monday seeking to delay enforcement of a law that could force the sale or ban of the popular short-video app in the United States, to provide Supreme Court time to review the case.
If the appeal is dismissed, the law, set to take effect on January 19, 2025, could shut down TikTok, "one of the nation's most popular speech platforms," with over 170 million monthly users in the US, "on the eve of a presidential inauguration," a filing at Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia showed.
"An injunction will impose no material harm on the Government. There is no imminent threat to national security," the company argued in the document.
