TikTok creators fear economic blow of U.S. ban

Raw Story— SAN FRANCISCO — Ayman Chaudhary turned her love for reading into a living on TikTok, posting video snippets about books like those banned in schools in ultra-conservative parts of the United States. Now the online platform she relies on to support her family is poised to be banned in what entrepreneurs using TikTok condemn as an attack on their livelihoods. "It's so essential to small businesses and creators; it's my full-time job," the 23-year-old Chicago resident told AFP.

ETtech.com—TikTok creators fear economic blow of US ban. Ayman Chaudhary turned her love for reading into a living on TikTok, posting video snippets about books like those banned in schools in ultra-conservative parts of the United States.Now the online platform she relies on to support her family is poised to be banned in what entrepreneurs using TikTok condemn as an attack on their livelihoods. It's so essential to small businesses and creators; it's my full-time job, the 23-year-old Chicago resident told AFP. It makes me really worried that I live...

CNBC—TikTok sued the U.S. government to block a ban. Here’s what happens now. 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.

Gephardt Daily—TikTok to sue U.S. over possible First Amendment violation in app’s recent ‘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.