Officials insist China-based owner ByteDance must separate from its short video app in the US because it is a threat to national security and citizens’ data
The US justice department is asking a US court to reject TikTok’s challenge to a law forcing the video app to be sold or face a ban.The US justice department is asking a US court to reject TikTok’s challenge to a law forcing the video app to be sold or face a ban.The US justice department has asked an appeals court to reject legal challenges to a law requiring China-based ByteDance to divest itself of TikTok’s US assets by 19 January or face a ban.
The department is rejecting all of the arguments raised by TikTok – including that the law violates the first amendment free speech rights of Americans who use the short video app – saying the law is aimed at addressing national security concerns, not speech, and is aimed at China’s ability to exploit TikTok to access Americans’ sensitive personal information.
The Republican presidential candidate, Donald Trump, has joined TikTok and told an interviewer in June he would never support a ban – despite having signed an executive order threatening to ban it in 2020, when he was president. The US vice-president, Kamala Harris, who is running for president, joined TikTok this week.
The law prohibits app stores like Apple and Google from offering TikTok and bars internet hosting services from supporting TikTok unless it is divested by ByteDance. Driven by worries among US lawmakers that China could access data on Americans or spy on them with the app, the measure was passed overwhelmingly in the US Congress.
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