TikTok's lawyer danced around the question but said there is no precedent for a foreign government being subject to U.S. free speech laws. He then used a series of analogies, and it didn't seem like the Supreme Court judges were impressed by his answer.

The Supreme Court will convene for a rare oral argument session on Friday to consider a set of landmark cases that could permanently alter the way millions of people consume online content. TikTok, the video-based social media app used by more than 160 million users in the United States,

The lawyer for TikTok and its Chinese parent company ByteDance offered a warning during Supreme Court arguments over a law that would compel the sale of the short-video app or ban it in the United States: If Congress could do this to TikTok,