Doesn’t the Constitution mean what it says? Doesn’t no law mean no law? Regrettably, today, no law means whatever the court says it means.

President Donald Trump is on the right track regarding TikTok. The app should remain available in America. Unfortunately, that is not as simple as pausing

But a window has been opened for acknowledging that, as a matter of law, protecting human expression is qualitatively different from enabling algorithmic manipulation of human attention. Platforms such as TikTok and its American-founded counterparts Facebook,

After approximately 12 hours of darkness in the U.S., TikTok returned Sunday, and parent company ByteDance credited Donald Trump for its return.

For now, TikTok lives to fight another day. But as this saga continues to unfold, it’s clear that the battle over its future has only just begun.

On Friday morning, the Supreme Court upheld a federal ban on TikTok, allowing the government to effectively shutter the social media app when the law takes effect on Sunday. The court rejected an argument,

TikTok went dark in the U.S. as roughly 170 million Americans were denied access to the popular social media app. Although the threat of suspending the app loomed over American users for months, some University of Iowa students were in disbelief.

“I have been against a TikTok ban for a long time, because it goes against freedom of speech,” Musk wrote in a post. “That said, the current situation where TikTok is allowed to operate in ...

TikTok stopped functioning for its 170 million American users after a law was enacted banning the app due to concerns from US politicians about the potential misuse of their citizens' data by Chinese officials.

President Trump has signed an executive order granting TikTok a 75-day extension to comply with a law that requires a sale or ban of the platform. He says during that time, the US will not enforce the law passed by Congress last year and signed by former President Joe Biden.

After the company briefly turned off its app for its 170 million US users on Saturday, some flocked to other corners of the internet to react.

The court ruled in that landmark case that freedom of speech and ... and thus all sorts of legislation about speech — from defamation to treason to silencing TikTok — is unconstitutional.