Massachusetts senator seeks to extend deadline for TikTok ban

Senator Ed Markey (D-Mass.) plans to enactment of laws To extend the TikTok ban period to 270 days. TikTok has warned about this Closing in just five daysBut the new law, officially called the TikTok Deadline Act, will give TikTok more time to separate from its Chinese parent company ByteDance if approved by Congress.

TikTok is currently expected to “go dark” on January 19, unless the Supreme Court intervenes to delay the ban. D The Supreme Court is reviewing the banAnd is expected to decide this week whether the law behind the ban violates the First Amendment

“As the January 19 deadline approaches, TikTok creators and users across the country are understandably alarmed,” Markey said in a Senate floor speech on Monday. “They are uncertain about the future of the platform, their accounts and the vibrant online communities they have built “These communities cannot be replicated in other apps. A ban would collapse a kind of information and cultural ecosystem, silencing millions of people in the process.”

Markey noted that while TikTok has problems and poses a “serious risk” to the privacy and mental health of young people, a ban would have “serious consequences for the millions of Americans who depend on the app for social connection and their economic livelihood.”

Markey and Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.), along with Congressman Ro Khanna (CA-17) recently submitted a Bilateral friendship is brief Urging the Supreme Court to reverse the DC Circuit Court decision upholding the TikTok ban. The trio argued that the TikTok ban violated the First Amendment.