{"id":23,"date":"2025-01-17T08:22:15","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T08:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/hiphopmagizine\/hip-hop-likely-to-lose-tiktok-as-supreme-court-leans-toward-ban\/"},"modified":"2025-01-17T08:22:15","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T08:22:15","slug":"hip-hop-likely-to-lose-tiktok-as-supreme-court-leans-toward-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/hiphopmagizine\/hip-hop-likely-to-lose-tiktok-as-supreme-court-leans-toward-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Hip-Hop Likely to Lose TikTok as Supreme Court Leans Toward Ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt Hip Hop Magizine News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"9431463036\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>It looks like\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.xxlmag.com\/tags\/tiktok\/\" target=\"_blank\">TikTok<\/a>\u00a0might soon meet its demise in the United States, which means hip-hop will no longer be using the app. The Supreme Court is leaning toward banning the app during a recent hearing on Capitol Hill.<\/p>\n<h3>TikTok Ban Seems Imminent<\/h3>\n<p>On Friday (Jan. 10), the Court heard oral arguments about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xxlmag.com\/tiktok-ban\/\" target=\"_blank\">a bill passed<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xxlmag.com\/tags\/joe-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\">President Joe Biden<\/a> last March that would require TikTok&#8217;s parent company, ByteDance, to either sell TikTok to a U.S. investor or shut it down in the States by Jan. 19. Both Democrats and Republicans argued in favor of prohibiting the app, citing the security concerns of U.S. users&#8217; information being harvested by the Asian company, despite lawyers for ByteDance and a group of users saying the ban violates First Amendment rights.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The law doesn&#8217;t say TikTok has to shut down. It says ByteDance has to divest,&#8221; Justice Amy Coney Barrett said during the hearing, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2025\/01\/10\/supreme-court-tiktok-ban\" target=\"_blank\">Axios<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The law is only targeted at this foreign corporation that doesn&#8217;t have First Amendment rights. Whatever effect it has, it has,&#8221; Justice Elena Kagan said.<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court is expected to make a final decision soon, with the looming shutdown date a little over a week away. If the Court rules in favor to ban the app, TikTok would lose over 170 million U.S. users.<\/p>\n<p>There may be a saving grace, however. Billionaire Frank McCourt\u2019s Project Liberty has reportedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/01\/09\/billionaire-frank-mccourts-project-liberty-bids-for-tiktok.html\" target=\"_blank\">submitted a bid to buy the app<\/a>. The proposed purchase would put TikTok under American ownership and save the app from disappearing Stateside.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We\u2019ve put forward a proposal to ByteDance to realize Project Liberty\u2019s vision for a reimagined TikTok\u2014one built on an American-made tech stack that puts people first,&#8221; McCourt, Project Liberty\u2019s founder, said in the statement. \u201cBy keeping the platform alive without relying on the current TikTok algorithm and avoiding a ban, millions of Americans can continue to enjoy the platform.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hip-hop and TikTok have had a symbiotic relationship over the past few years, with many rappers gaining popularity when their songs are used on the platform, in turn making TikTok a go-to place for finding viral songs. Some people have even argued that the music industry as a whole could take a hit if TikTok dissolves. It looks like we will have an answer about the future of the app sooner than later.<\/p>\n<h4>Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xxlmag.com\/hip-hop-tiktok\/\" target=\"_blank\">Yes, Hip-Hop Will Survive Without TikTok<\/a><\/h4>\n<p><h2 class=\"photogallery-title\">See The Most Anticipated Hip-Hop Albums of 2025<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/www.xxlmag.com\/rest\/carbon\/api\/scripts.js?mver=540&#038;gver=6&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Fbtloader.com%2Ftag%3Fo%3D5642230212591616%26upapi%3Dtrue&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.p-n.io%2Fpushly-sdk.min.js%3Fdomain_key%3DLT1Yn2pW9B5QzH6n4H2YlkQyVEfXVOOu82lt&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Ftownsquare.media%2Fpublic%2Fresources%2Fjs%2Fpubcid.min.js&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Fplatform.twitter.com%2Fwidgets.js&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Fapis.google.com%2Fjs%2Fplatform.js&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Fconnect.facebook.net%2Fen_US%2Fsdk.js&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.pinterest.com%2Fjs%2Fpinit.js&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Fpub.doubleverify.com%2Fdvtag%2F29287203%2FDV1106009%2Fpub.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\" async defer data-osano=\"ESSENTIAL\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt Hip Hop Magizine News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"9431463036\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xxlmag.com\/tiktok-supreme-court-leans-toward-banning-app\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like\u00a0TikTok\u00a0might soon meet its demise in the United States, which means hip-hop will no longer be using the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - 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