TikTok is bound to be banned in the US on Jan. 19 after the last Supreme Court hearing on Friday. A deal was settled in keeping TikTok in the US on the condition that its Chinese parent company, Bytedance, sell the media platform to national security. Many are against the ban which has resulted in public opinion vouching for TikTok to be kept in the US, including President Trump making efforts to delay and repeal the decision when he gets sworn in office on Jan. 20. The social media giant wishes to delay the ban, claiming that the Constitution’s First Amendment Rights of free speech and expression are violated by the government’s censorship of the app. If the ban on TikTok is settled by Sunday, it will no longer be downloadable in the app store, and users with the app will slowly lose access to the platform as updates to keep the app running won’t be launched again.
“I don’t want TikTok to go because it reminds of what happened to Vine and Musically,” sophomore Humza Nawaby said. “I’ve saved a lot of videos and sounds that I personally love and just for TikTok to go will make me have to switch to Instagram reels.”
On the other hand, there are students at Champe in favor of the ban. A common topic of concern with TikTok is the ruined attention span.
“I want the ban to go through because I feel like TikTok has rotted a lot of lives and ruined parts of human nature,” junior Abdul Zaman said. “It also promotes bad habits like doom scrolling and some inappropriate content that come up there and I feel that the government has the right to take down a foreign app that our country has no control over.”
