Federal appeals court upholds law requiring sale or ban of TikTok in the U.S.

The law, which requires TikTok to break ties with its China-based parent company ByteDance or be banned by mid-January, is constitutional, rebuffing TikTok's challenge.

The First Amendment exists to protect free speech in the United States; here the Government acted solely to protect that freedom from a foreign adversary nation.

The U.S. has said it's concerned about TikTok collecting vast swaths of user data, including sensitive information on viewing habits that could fall into the hands of the Chinese government.

President-elect Donald Trump, who tried to ban TikTok during his first term, said he is now against a TikTok ban and would work to 'save' the social media platform.

Read at ABC7 San Francisco