TikTok and its Chinese parent company ByteDance filed a legal challenge against the United States on Tuesday, taking aim at a law that would force the app to be sold or face a US ban. This comes around two weeks after President Joe Biden signed a bill giving TikTok 270 days to find a non-Chinese buyer or face a ban in the country.
ByteDance has said it has no plans to sell TikTok, leaving the lawsuit as its only option to avoid a ban. Photo: Antonin UTZ / AFPand its Chinese parent company ByteDance filed a legal challenge against the United States on Tuesday, taking aim at a law that would force the app to be sold or face a US ban.
"There is no question: the Act will force a shutdown of TikTok by January 19, 2025," the lawsuit said,"silencing who use the platform to communicate in ways that cannot be replicated elsewhere."That effort got bogged down in the courts when a federal judge temporarily blocked Trump's attempt, saying the reasons for banning the app were likely overstated and that free speech rights were in jeopardy.
"TikTok has prevailed in its previous First Amendment challenges, but the bipartisan nature of this federal law may make judges more likely to defer" to Congress and arguments over national security, said Gautam Hans, professor of law at Cornell University. The United States has strict limits on foreign ownership of broadcast media, but authorities have until now left internet platforms largely untouched.TikTok had taken a series of measures to assuage concerns that the data of US users was unprotected, but the lawsuit said those efforts were ignored by the government.
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