Ticketkock is a video-sharing social media platform
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The US law, which banned the popular video -sharing app ticket, is going to be effective in early 2025 – but the US Supreme Court Agreed To hear the legal challenge of tickets on this. Meanwhile, the newly elected President Donald Trump has indicated that he can take action against the law, which has raised the question whether it will be maintained.
What will really do the ticket restriction?
Starting from 19 January 2025, “Protect Americans from foreign enemy controlled applications act“American companies like Google and Apple will prevent users from allowing or updating tickets through their app stores – unless the Chinese owner of tickets sells the app to an American company. For this, Internet service providers will also need to block the platform on US Internet browsers. In April 2024, it was approved by the President Joe Biden with bipartisan support by the Representative Assembly and the Senate before the signing of the law.
If the restriction is implemented, it would be practically impossible to download the ticket -lock app for new users in the US Kate Ruan Washington DC-based non-profit organization Center for Democracy and Technology. For 170 million existing ticket users in the US, the app may remain on their phone. However, without access to updates, its functionality will be reduced over time.
People in the US can still potentially reach tickets using virtual private networks (VPN) service that hides the user’s location. Ruan says, but the experience of using the app can still deteriorate: as the ticket material will no longer be placed on the nearby American server, it will load more slowly.
These restrictions arise from privacy and safety concerns. American MPs have said that ticket lock is a “national security threat” as the Chinese government may force Bitdons to hand over the data of ticket users or pressurize the app to modify its algorithm, which introduces such materials to present such materials Can be done which can manipulate the public opinion. However, no strong evidence has been given to support these claims. Ticketkk has said It has invested heavily to protect American data From external influence and cleverness.
“It is very worrying that a country like the United States, which is constantly leading on the global platform in protecting free, open and inter -operational internet, is now taking steps to ban an entire platform within its boundaries – This is an extraordinary measure, “Ruan says.
Will the Supreme Court stop ticket ban?
However, the first lower DC Circuit was a judge in the court of appeals allowed The Supreme Court has agreed to hear the appeal of ticket -lock after the US law was maintained. Ticket Post Is this ban similar to sensorship that violates free speech rights given to Americans under the first amendment of the US Constitution.
Ruan says, “I really want to see the court to struggle with how this law harms those rights, and when the government is trying to regulate these speech platforms, it is the rights of social media users. How to take care. ” “The courts have not done this during the investigation of this particular law, even though there are users who are suit, claiming that the law violates their first amendment rights, as is different from the ticket.”
Ruan says the most likely short -term impact is that the US Supreme Court will temporarily suspend law, while judges are considering the case. This can cause a delay of several months in the influence of the law – no matter how much time the Supreme Court needs to take its decision in 2025. Tickeks have specifically asked for such intervals in their court filing.
If the Supreme Court feels that the ban violates the first amendment rights, and the US government has less restrictive options at its disposal, it can issue an prohibitory verification that effectively to the government for such a lump sum restriction for the government. It makes it impossible to justify, says Ruan. The Supreme Court may also require lower DC Circuit Court of appeals to re -examine its analysis of the case. Such decisions may force the government to find a more narrowly designed option to regulate tickets.
How could Trump stop the ticket -lock ban?
In his first term, the newly elected President Trump supported the plan to ban tickets, but has since changed his stand. During the 2024 President’s campaign, he promised “Save the ticketIn a post on his social media platform, Truth Social, he encouraged American voters to support him. Trump on 16 December meet The CEO of the ticket and later, during a press conference, he said that his administration would “look at” the ban. Even if the Supreme Court eventually agrees to maintain the ban, Trump may change the impact of the law.
For example, the President can return to the US MPs and ask them to change or modify the national law, Ruan says. He also described a scenario where Trump may potentially direct his administration of his administration not to enforce the law – although he warned that it would be out of those criteria as to how the US government usually works. .
Even though Trump’s Attorney General announced that the US government would not implement the ban, American companies like Google and Apple may be reluctant to allow people to reach the app through their platforms. “If I am in charge of legal risk in any one of these companies, I do not know that I would say that ‘we will trust that (decision), it is okay for us to allow access to this app that has been banned. .
What would be meant for the rest of the world ban on ticket -lock in America?
If this happens, the US restriction may have a significant impact worldwide. For the beginning, people from other countries will no longer have access to new content of US-based ticket creators and influential people. But the more important thing is that American government actions may encourage other countries to impose similar restrictions.
America is not the first country to take action against ticket -lock – the government of India has blocked the app since 2020 – but Ruan expressed concern that the US ban could encourage “powerful rule” to ban any app. Is, including some apps developed in the US. Equal national security justification.
Ruan says, “I think it will definitely be used as a justification to ban tickets in other places, but will also be done to ban access to other applications that in those countries Important speeches work as platforms, where the Internet may not be as open. “
Will the ticket ban will protect privacy from the ban?
The direct goal of the ban is to protect American ticket users’ privacy – prevent their data from going into the hands of another country – and to overcome the concerns that the Chinese government can manipulate the material presented to the app users in the US in the US . But Ruan says that the US MP can take many alternative steps before blocking tickets completely.
For example, the government may need to be more transparent about the tickets about how it collects and shares the data of individual users, and what measures to protect their privacy. Ruan says that to reduce the concerns of manipulation, law manufacturers may need to share the platform how its algorithms filter and manage the content seen by users.
The US government can also consider passing a consumer privacy law so that social media platforms can provide better legal protection for other companies or governments to share data of individuals. “Those options related to consumer’s confidentiality and transparency are less extreme than banning the entire platform,” says Ruan.
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