TikTok asks SCOTUS for an emergency order to block a US ban [Video]

TikTok on Monday asked the Supreme Court to step in on an emergency basis to block the federal law that would ban the popular platform in the United States unless its China-based parent company agreed to sell it.Related video above: Can Trump save TikTok? Experts say it’s complicatedLawyers for the company and China-based ByteDance urged the justices to step in before the law’s Jan. 19 deadline. A similar plea was expected from content creators who rely on the platform for income and some of TikTok’s more than 170 million users in the U.S.The companies have said that a shutdown lasting just a month would cause TikTok to lose about a third of its daily users in the U.S. and significant advertising revenue.The case could attract the court’s interest because it pits free speech rights against the government’s stated aims of protecting national security while raising novel issues about social media …