TikTok in Trump’s Court Now

When future historians chronicle recent events in the tech industry, they’re likely to marvel at the endurance of TikTok, which has become like a cockroach in a nuclear war: the ultimate survivor. 

Today’s Supreme Court decision upholding the ban-or-sell law should have been the nail in the coffin for the company. After all, as we recounted in this piece today, its management had no backup plan other than the legal fight it just lost. ByteDance does not seem to have ever seriously entertained the idea of selling TikTok. Its lack of a Plan B seemed to be reflected in the fact that it took TikTok two and a half hours to respond publicly to today’s widely expected court decision. (You’d think having a statement ready to go would have been an obvious notion.)