TikTok’s last stand: Supreme Court weighs ban as deadline looms
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“Any new TikTok would be a fundamentally different platform,” TikTok’s attorney says.
In an exchange with Justice Barrett, Noel Francisco explains the two reasons why it’s not possible to disentangle from ByteDance: first, that it would take years to reconstruct a team that could maintain the source code, and second, that it would need to get users around the world to sign up for an essentially new platform to share content.
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