Skip to main content
Markkula Center for Applied Ethics

Stories

"NBC Bay Area" logo with a blue background.

Federal Judges Uphold law That Could ban TikTok

Irina Raicu, director, internet ethics, quoted by NBC Bay Area News.

To stay in America, an appellate court has upheld the ruling that TikTok has to sell the app to a company without close ties to the Chinese government by January 19, 2025.

ByteDance, the company that owns TikTok, has been scrutinized for privacy and and propaganda issues and is appealing the ban decisions on First Amendment grounds.

Irina Raicu, director of the internet ethics program, commented on the context of the decision: "The First Amendment does not say you have a right to have a TikTok account or that you have the right to say anything on any platform that you want."

 

Irina Raicu, director, internet ethics, quoted by NBC Bay Area News.

Ethics
media, internet