TikTok filed a petition on Tuesday challenging the constitutionality of the law forcing Chinese-owned ByteDance to sell the app or face a ban.
Share on linkedin has made clear it is not interested in divesting, so winning in court is the app's path forward for now.The filing from TikTok and ByteDance on Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia lays out its strategy for getting the law thrown out.
TikTok argues in its filing that the law, the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, is an "unprecedented" violation of First Amendment rights. The company argues that the law's claim this is done in the interest of U.S. national security doesn't hold up to the "strict scrutiny" standard required of First Amendment-related cases.has not met the burden of proof required around its claims about the app's risk to data security.
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