The ban on TikTok is “not a suppression of free speech” because China’s Communist Party is using the app “to mine data of Americans, perhaps even get state secrets and using that for their purposes,” said Rep. Tom Tiffany, R-Wis.

“So I don’t view this so much as a free speech issue as I do as protecting our national security,” he told Newsmax’s “The Chris Salcedo Show” Friday.

The Supreme Court on Friday unanimously upheld the federal law banning TikTok, holding that the risk to national security posed by its ties to China overcomes concerns about limiting speech by the app or its 170 million users in the United States.

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