Others understandably are more concerned with the site itself.
I'll get interested again as Trump uses the site as a bargaining item in talking to China.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/21/mr-beast-is-reportedly-now-among-those-trying-to-buy-tiktok/
Chinalawtranslate.com is a crowdsourced, crowdfunded translation project making Chinese law accessible to English speakers.
It is run by Jeremy Daum, a Senior Research Fellow at the Yale Law School Paul Tsai Center specializing in criminal Procedure.
In a few days you'll know what the court did- no need for guessing games.
The justices seemed skeptical of speech interests, but more of TikTok's (vs. Bytedance's) than of users.
They also seemed skeptical of the government's arguments.
https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-tiktok-china-speech-security-72fa68dd677df96a3b3526a1bddb0aa8
The Supreme Court seems likely to uphold a law that would ban TikTok in the United States beginning Jan. 19 unless the popular social media program is sold by its China-based parent company. Hearing arguments Friday 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’s connections to China override concerns about restricting the speech, either of TikTok or its 170 million users in the United States. Early in arguments that lasted more than two and a half hours, Chief Justice John Roberts identified as the “main concern” in the case TikTok’s ownership by China-based ByteDance and the parent company’s ties to Chinese government’s intelligence operations.
Articles like this on Arctic shipping reflect my understanding of why Canada and Greenland are in the spotlight.
Trump is a madman not because it's irrational to be focused on this, but because he addresses it by Tweets about invasion and annexing.
https://asiatimes.com/2025/01/why-chinas-ice-silk-road-has-trump-up-in-arctic-arms/