Social media platform Tiktok has alleged that the US government has unconstitutionally banned the platform, challenging the ban in a US court
Video-sharing app TikTok, and its Chinese parent company ByteDance, have filed a legal challenge in the US against a legislative move to force its sale, lest it face a country-wide ban. The petition said the demand violated constitutional guarantees to free speech detailed in the First Amendment, after President Joe Biden signed a bill giving […]
The creators have argued that the law regulates speech by singling out and effectively banning a medium of communication - in this case TikTok.
ByteDance argues that the U.S. government requirement to sell TikTok or face a ban in the U.S. is “obviously unconstitutional." The post TikTok, Byte Dance Sue U.S. to Stop Law That Could Lead to Ban on Popular App TikTok first appeared on The Foreign Desk | by Lisa Daftari.
The TikTok Ban Is The Next Patriot Act Authored by Aaron Sobczak via The Mises Institute, HR 7521, called the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, is a recent development in American politics. TikTok has been in the news for the past few years, after the public became aware of its connections to China. The popular social media mobile app is currently owned by ByteDance Ltd, a Chinese company. China and the United States currently have a rocky...
According to Gallup, Generation Z is the gayest generation ever. While just 2% of baby boomers currently identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender, and just 7.6% of all adults do the same, an eye-popping 22.3% of Gen Z claim an LGBT identity. The next highest number is millennials at just 9.8%. What is going […]
TikTok and its parent company, ByteDance, have taken legal action against the U.S. government following Congress and President Biden’s enactment of a recent law. This law mandates TikTok to sell its operations within nine months or face expulsion from U.S. app stores. TikTok argues that this legislation infringes upon its constitutional rights, particularly the First […] The post TikTok Sues US Government Over Potential Ban first appeared on The Source.
Amsterdam TikTok hit Fabel Friet, where large groups of tourists wait to pick up French fries with exotic toppings, does not yet have to cut its queues, a court in the Dutch capital has decided. The city council wanted to restrict the number of people waiting to pick up their orders to 10 in a new operating licence, but court ruled that would be unworkable and has suspended the new licence pending a full court case. In addition, given the
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For over 40 years, Ted Van der Vlies and his wife Marga grew fruits and vegetables in their backyard on the outskirts of Dordrecht, the Netherlands. Onions, potatoes, lettuce, carrots, rhubarb, cherries, you name it. Little did they know that their homegrown produce was likely poisoning them. Just a kilometre away from their garden sits the tangled mesh of steel pipes, giant vats, and smokestacks of the Chemours chemical plant. A recent court case found that the American conglomerate...
In the last week of April, Congress passed, and President Biden signed, a law banning TikTok in the United States if its parent company, ByteDance, did not sell it to an American company within 12 months. The New York Times Senior writer David Leonhardt provides a good summary of why this bill was passed. It is a More
TikTok has sued the U.S. government over a new law that would force the company to sell the popular social media app or be blocked in the U.S. TikTok’s lawyers have stressed in their complaint that the U.S. government’s bill constitutes excessive interference with free speech rights and a clear violation of the First Amendment. […]