You can stream it here.
LII has a good, easy-to-read summary of the arguments here.
ADDED: The NYT live blogged it, here, wherethe headline is now: "Supreme Court Seems Poised to Uphold Law That Could Shut Down TikTok" (free access link). From the conclusion:
Even as several justices expressed concerns that the law was in tension with the First Amendment, a majority appeared satisfied that it was aimed at TikTok’s ownership rather than its speech.
The government offered two rationales for the law: combating covert disinformation from China and barring it from harvesting private information from Americans. The court was divided over whether the first justification was sufficient to justify it. But several justices seemed troubled by the possibility that China could use data culled from the app for espionage or blackmail....
Arguing on behalf of the government: Elizabeth B. Prelogar, the solicitor general, countered that the act does not violate the First Amendment. “All of the same speech that’s happening on TikTok could happen post-divestiture,” she said, adding, “All the act is doing is trying to surgically remove the ability of foreign adversary nation to get our data and to be able to exercise control over the platform.” ...
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...'cat videos' now a matter of judicial record...hehe
I have no confidence that the SCOTUS will stop this illegal takover. The 3 liberal/leftist will vote to support the Government. ACB, the new Grandma O'Connor, will probably support the Government too. Then there's Kavanaugh and Roberts.
"Garland notes that if ByteDance fails to divest TikTok, affecting users’ speech by eliminating the app in the United States, ByteDance’s actions will directly cause this effect."
He went with the "why are you hitting yourself in the face" angle, a favorite move of older siblings everywhere.
Congress essentially found that Tiktok was a CCP controlled entity that secretly sought to disseminate CCP propaganda and to gather private user data to facilitate their hostile objectives. If that's true, does the Constitution prohibit mandatory divestiture?
That is the way the issue should be framed.
I agree with Ampersand, and add that anyone using TikTok while knowing it is a device controlled by the CCP deserves having the problems coming their way when some CCP functionary decides to start using American credit card info, from cellphones with the app, for personal use.
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