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On Friday, Dec. 6, a federal appeals court upheld a law passed in April 2024 requiring Chinese-owned ByteDance to sell TikTok or face an effective ban in the United States. The law set a deadline of Jan. 19, 2025, for ByteDance to secure a non-Chinese buyer. President-elect Donald Trump has not indicated whether he will enforce a ban when he takes office next month, although he stated during his campaign that he vowed to save the social media platform.
Watch the video above as Straight Arrow News contributor Star Parker explains that Trump understands the need to block China from accessing Americans’ personal information and influencing young Americans with “harmful ideology” — and why he must act.
The following is an excerpt from the above video:
Nonetheless, the CCP [Chinese Communist Party] is objecting to the requirement that ByteDance relinquish its ownership of TikTok. ByteDance and some prominent American investors are waging a campaign to persuade President-elect Trump to exempt them from the requirement to sell TikTok.
ByteDance and their advocates argue that the requirement infringes on free speech, but that argument misses the mark. When he took his executive action, President Trump recognized that we should not allow the Chinese Communist Party access to Americans’ personal and proprietary information. Nor should we allow the CCP to indoctrinate young Americans with their harmful ideology.
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