These diverging views raise the stakes for the court, which has a 6-3 conservative majority, as it prepares to decide the fate of a popular social media platform used by about half of Americans in a case testing the US Constitution's First Amendment protections against government abridgment of speech.
"This is the most significant free speech case in at least a generation," said Timothy Edgar, a former US national security and intelligence official who has worked in both Republican and Democratic presidential administrations.
"If we consider that there are 170 million active monthly users of Tik Tok in the United States, the volume of free speech at risk is the largest of any Supreme Court case in American history," added Edgar, who now teaches cybersecurity at Brown University and joined a brief backing TikTok in the case.
Driven by concerns that China could access data or spy on Americans with the app, Congress overwhelmingly passed the measure last year with bipartisan support, and Democratic President Joe Biden signed it into law.
It requires TikTok's China-based parent company Byte Dance to sell the platform or face a US ban on January 19.
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