The MAGA Republic defends TikTok as a “sustainable platform” as its future hangs with the Supreme Court.

MAGA Republic delivers support for TikTok ahead of the upcoming ban on the social media platform that will go into effect later this month.

“Trump won the election because he listened to first-time voters like me and joined TikTok to bring the message directly to us,” RNC Youth Advisory Council Chair Brilyn Hollyhand told Fox News Digital about the upcoming ban. “He didn't need paid influencers or bad practices like his failed opponent. All he had to do was go where Gen Z was, on TikTok, and devise his plan.”

Representatives of TikTok, which is owned by Chinese tech company ByteDance, are set to file arguments before the US Supreme Court on Friday to ask the country's highest court to delay The ban on the app will come into effect the day before the inauguration. . President Biden signed the law became law in April that gave TikTok's parent company until January 19 to sell it or face a US ban.

If the Supreme Court does not stop the ban, US TikTok users will no longer be able to download the app, and internet providers will be banned from allowing access to the site.

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The looming ban is due to claims that US users' data is being collected by the Chinese government, but MAGA Republicans and journalists who spoke to Fox Digital dismissed the claim as dishonest. .

“I have done, if not, the most serious about all the problems related to the platform, especially for my daily program when I share my thoughts and opinions about what is happening in culture and politics, ” TikTok creator and TPUSA commentator Isabel. Brown, who has more 500,000 followers on TikTokhe told Fox Digital in a phone interview. “And we're facing this potential platform ban for at least nine months to a year…

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But I have a hard time believing it's true The argument to censor TikTok is based on the subject of national security while we have documented the testimony of nearly every American public information company. Meta, Twitter, YouTube, etc., selling your information under the table to your government and/or the Chinese Communist Party and even the Russian government. ”

“Heck, we even have records of Airbnb selling American data to the Chinese Communist Party. So there doesn't seem to be much of a willingness to really protect the cyber security and personal information of American citizens from the government in large numbers, it seems to be only focuses on TikTok as a platform in itself,Brown continued.

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Supporters of President-elect Donald Trump's praise of TikTok comes after the former and incoming president made significant inroads with Gen Z, particularly young male voters, in the last election cycle. A Fox News Voter Survey released after the election found that men aged 18-44 supported Trump at 53% compared to Vice President Kamala Harris at 45%.

“We're talking about an app that nearly 200 million Americans, 75% of whom are Gen Z, use every day as our source of news, and according to other studies, such as our main search engine, more than Google … and I found that the opportunity to go viral – to chat with as many people as possible – on Tiktok is unmatched by any other media platform community,” Brown said.

The Republican strategist told Fox News Digital that TikTok is an “attention-spanning platform”.

“In every way, TikTok is the platform that's holding up right now – if you look at how Trump has dominated his competition, there's no arguing against the value that this platform has, and “I don't think there's a world where Trump doesn't keep his promises,” the strategist said.

The GOP insider added that “the fact that (Sen. Mitch) McConnell and (former Vice President Mike) Pence want to block this thing means it needs to be saved.”

Before the new year, Sen. Mitch McConnell filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court, urging the justices to reject ByteDance's request to delay the ban.

“The topsy-turvy idea that TikTok has an express right to run the CCP regime is absurd,” McConnell counsel Michael A. Fragoso wrote in a court amicus brief. “Should Congress have allowed Nikita Khrushchev to buy CBS and replace The Bing Crosby Show with Alexander Nevsky?”

Former Vice President Mike Pence's nonprofit, Advancing American Freedom, filed a similar amicus brief in the United States Supreme Court last month.

“The CCP does not respect free speech, either in China or in America. The First Amendment is not, and should not be read as a way to give the Chinese government the power to do what the American government did unable to do: control what the Americans could not do. he can speak and hear,” the group wrote.

American Freedom Development President Tim Chapman told Fox News Digital that the first Trump administration “had this right the first time” when Trump worked to block TikTok before the former and incoming president. change his mind about the device.

“The Trump administration had this right the first time when it planned to ban TikTok with executive authority for the same concerns that exist today. say the outcome of national security has changed,” Chapman said.

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Emily Wilson, political commentator and podcast “Emily Saves America,” told Fox News Digital that he can see both sides of the argument about the upcoming ban on TikTok but that creating a ban would be “hypocrisy against free speech.”

“TikTok's ban is controversial, I see two sides to it. I see it as a tool that doesn't care and consumes a lot of people's time, but sometimes it's the only place I get information about stories should be broadcast worldwide. At the same time it can be dangerous for young people. One day you wake up with TikTok and the young people of America say they support Osama bin Laden.

“It seems like it's an app that relies on being anti-American and mentally retarded. At the end of the day, if I say banning it is hypocrisy against free speech. I just don't want it to hurt young people,” he said. he said: “. added.

TIKTOK DIVESTMENT COULD BE A '200 YEAR REALITY' FOR TRUMP, SAYS

Trump himself has made a 180-degree turn on TikTok. Under his first administration, in 2020, Trump tried to ban the device from the US market due to national security concerns. However, his executive order was eventually blocked in federal court.

Flash forward to 2024 during the campaign cycle, and Trump joined the app in June during the campaign cycle and has since amassed nearly 15 million followers and 107 million likes as fans flock to follow his posts on the platform. Trump also filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court last month, which did not side with the party in the case, arguing that the final decision should be left to his administration.

“Today, President Donald J. Trump filed an amicus brief with the United States Supreme Court asking the Court to extend the time it would take to shut down TikTok, and allow President Trump an opportunity to resolve the issue in a timely manner. save TikTok and preserve America's national security once he takes office as President of the United States on January 20, 2025,” Trump's spokesperson and Incoming White House Press Secretary Steven Cheung told Fox News Digital last month.

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“President Donald J. Trump ('President Trump') is the 45th and soon to be 47th President of the United States of America,” the brief states. “On January 20, 2025, President Trump will assume responsibility for the United States' national security, foreign policy and other key executive functions.”

Fox News Digital's Brooke Singman, Paul Steinhauser and Morgan Phillips contributed to this report.