Supreme Court upholds forced sale of TikTok from Chinese parent company

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Supreme Court unanimously upholds forced sale of TikTok from Chinese parent company
By Josh Christenson   
Published Jan. 17, 2025, 10:09 a.m. ET

The US Supreme Court upheld a law to force TikTok’s sale from a Chinese state-owned firm, even as President Biden and President-elect Donald Trump have sought to block the divestment.

The court’s justices in a unanimous ruling ordered the qualified divestment of the California-based social media platform from China’s ByteDance.

“There is no doubt that, for more than 170 million Americans, TikTok offers a distinctive and expansive outlet for expression, means of engagement, and source of community,” they wrote in an opinion upholding the DC US Appeals Court ruling.

“But Congress has determined that divestiture is necessary to address its well-supported national security concerns regarding TikTok’s data collection practices and relationship with a foreign adversary,” they said.

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 January 17, 2025 12:13pm EST
Kevin O'Leary puts $20B TikTok cash offer on the table: 'Most interesting, complicated, crazy situation'
Supreme Court upholds federal law banning the Chinese-owned app unless it sells to US buyer

    By Kristen Altus FOXBusiness

It’s a deal that TikTok may not be able to refuse: $20 billion in cash from popular entrepreneur and "Shark Tank" investor Kevin O’Leary.

"Right now, $20 billion’s on the table. Cash," O’Leary said Friday on "America’s Newsroom," just minutes after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a law requiring the Chinese-owned company to sell or be banned.

"There's a reason that Congress put this order in front of the Supreme Court. There's a reason they ruled in favor of it. It's not worth taking the risk," he continued. "And so the obvious solution is to sell it to an American syndicate as per the order."

In its decision, the Supreme Court backed the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, a law passed by Congress last April with wide bipartisan support. The law gave TikTok nine months to either divest from its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, or be removed from U.S.-based app stores and hosting services.

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The Chinese Communist Party is celebrating the ban of TikTok as American influencers move to CCP-controlled platforms like RedNote. Young American women are now paid foreign assets spreading propaganda for China.

Not only have America’s teens flocked to the CCP-controlled social media app, enlisted sailors aboard US Naval warships are posting to RedNote.

https://twitter.com/amuse/status/1880626420483072360

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TikTok replaced by the Chinese with something at least as nefarious.

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RedNote: China's Trojan Horse in America's Military

The modern battlefield is no longer confined to trenches and airstrips; it extends to the palm of your hand. As TikTok faces a legislative ban starting on Sunday, its CCP-controlled successor, RedNote, is rapidly filling the void. This new social media platform has captured the attention of an alarming demographic: young U.S. military personnel. Unwittingly, they are providing the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) with real-time intelligence on America’s forces. While one soldier’s post of a training session or a day on an aircraft carrier may seem harmless, the aggregated data from thousands of such posts creates a mosaic of intelligence. It is a mosaic the CCP can weaponize against us. The implications of RedNote’s data practices represent a monumental threat to national security, exposing the vulnerability of America’s defenders to foreign surveillance and influence.

The Mosaic Effect: Turning Innocuous Data into Strategic Gold
Sun Tzu once observed, "Know your enemy and know yourself and you can fight a hundred battles without disaster." In today’s world, one might amend that to include infinite information. RedNote, operating under the guise of a harmless entertainment app, has unparalleled data-collection capabilities. From GPS tracking to facial and object recognition, RedNote siphons information from its users at a granular level. When aggregated across thousands of accounts, this information paints a precise and comprehensive picture of U.S. military operations, personnel movements, and even strategic assets.  ...

In the hands of the CCP, RedNote is more than an app; it’s a weaponized portal into America’s military. By leveraging the habits of young service members enamored with social media, China gains an unprecedented strategic edge. This is not a theoretical concern but a pressing reality that demands immediate action.

Ronald Reagan famously quipped, “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.” Today, that extinction threat doesn’t arrive in tanks or missiles but in the guise of a sleek app promising entertainment and connection. The onus falls on American leadership—military, political, and cultural—to recognize the dangers and sever RedNote’s access to our troops. Failure to act will leave us not only exposed but complicit in our own undoing.

https://twitter.com/amuse/status/1880666123806400671