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In the US, a court ordered a Chinese company to sell TikTok.
Free speech advocates immediately criticized the decision.
A US federal appeals court has upheld a law requiring Chinese company ByteDance to abandon its popular TikTok app in the United States by early next year or face a ban.
According to Reuters, this decision is a victory for the Ministry of Justice and opponents of the Chinese application and a crushing blow for ByteDance. It raises the prospect of an unprecedented ban in just six weeks on the social media app used by 170 million Americans. The decision is expected to be appealed to the Supreme Court.
The appeals court noted that the law was the result of joint work by Republicans and Democrats, as well as two…
