TikTok’s presence in America may be reaching the end of the line.
The popular video app, which is owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, is currently scheduled to be banned nationwide on January 19th, 2025, just one day before Donald Trump takes office.
However, it has now filed a petition to the Supreme Court in a last ditch attempt to try and save its place in the valuable American media market after all its other legal attempts fell on deaf ears.
“The Act will shutter one of America’s most popular speech platforms the day before a presidential inauguration,” TikTok wrote in its petition.
“This, in turn, will silence the speech of Applicants and the many Americans who use the platform to communicate about politics, commerce, arts, and other matters of public concern.”
Despite claiming they are in favor of freedom of speech, TikTok are actually as bad as the rest of the social media companies.
The company has repeatedly censored The Gateway Pundit and other conservative voices on the basis of promoting "disinformation."
Donald Trump, meanwhile, has so far refused to support the ban, arguing that it would empower the likes of Mark Zuckerberg and Meta and allow them to capture the American market.
Trump is also active on the platform with nearly 15 million followers, although he has not posted since election day.