Gus Hurwitz on the TikTok Ban

ICLE Director of Law & Economics Programs Gus Hurwitz was quoted by the New York Post in a story about President Joe Biden’s signing of a bill requiring Chinese firm ByteDance to sell its TikTok subsidiary. You can read the full piece here.

“Courts will likely agree that the law is an attempt to address a compelling government interest,” said Justin Hurwitz, a senior fellow and academic director at the Center for Technology, Innovation, and Competition at the University of Pennsylvania’s Carey Law School.

“The question will be whether it does so effectively, and with minimal effects on other speech.”