Hello and happy Tuesday! Here’s your Tuesday Tech Drop, the past week’s top stories at the intersection of politics and technology. TikTok takes off the gloves TikTok has filed a lawsuit seeking to stave off a potential ban in the U.S. if the social media platform isn’t sold from its China-based parent company. The suit against the U.S. government, which is largely staked in First Amendment claims regarding free speech, is certain to prolong what was already going to be a protracted legal fight...
WASHINGTON >> The U.S. Justice Department and TikTok today asked a U.S. appeals court to set a fast-track schedule to consider the legal challenges to a new law requiring China-based ByteDance to divest TikTok’s U.S. assets by Jan. 19 or face a ban.
Eight TikTok creators sued the U.S. government on Tuesday, alleging their rights to free speech are being violated by a new federal law that would ban the social video app if its Chinese owner doesn't sell it. U.S. politicians have raised security concerns about the app, saying that TikTok's ties to its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, could allow a foreign country to collect American users' data and influence public opinion. A law signed by President Biden last month would require ByteDance...
“The ban is a pernicious attack on free speech,” a lawyer for the creators said, while a Justice Dept. spokesperson said the government looks forward to defending the law in court.
Share on Facebook Share on Twitter TikTok and its Chinese parent company ByteDance filed a lawsuit against the federal government Tuesday over what it called an “unconstitutional” potential ban in the U.S. of the social media platform.
TikTok on Tuesday sued the U.S. government over a law that would force Chinese parent ByteDance to sell the app or face a national ban.
May 7 (UPI) — The popular social media giant TikTok on Tuesday let it be known that the Chinese-owned company is now taking the U.S. government to federal court to stop enforcement of a recently signed law that effectively would ban the app unless it sells. “For the first time in history, Congress has enacted a […] The post TikTok to sue U.S. over possible First Amendment violation in app’s recent ‘ban’ first appeared on Gephardt Daily.
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.
Eight American TikTok creators are suing the government after President Biden signed the bill into law.
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WASHINGTON >> A group of TikTok creators said Tuesday they filed suit in U.S. federal court seeking to block a law signed by President Joe Biden that would force the divestiture of the short video app used by 170 million Americans or ban it, saying it has had “a profound effect on American life.”
Attorneys for the creators argued in the lawsuit that the law violates users’ First Amendment rights to free speech, echoing arguments by TikTok in a separate lawsuit.