The creators have argued that the law regulates speech by singling out and effectively banning a medium of communication - in this case TikTok.
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.
TikTok sued to block the law that would force the application to be divested from its Chinese-based parent company ByteDance or be banned from the U.S.
TikTok sued to block the law that would force the application to be divested from its Chinese-based parent company ByteDance or be banned from the U.S.
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. […]
WASHINGTON, DC (IANS) – TikTok, an online video entertainment platform, and its Chinese parent company Byte Dance have filed a legal challenge against the US government over a law forcing Byte Dance to sell off the ultra-popular app or face a nationwide ban in the […]
Bytedance, the parent company of TikTok, is suing the US government, arguing that the threatened ban is unconstitutional. The company had previously said it would do so, though it had been unclear whether it would follow through. The company is fighting a law which forces it to either sell the app to an American company, or be banned from operating in the US more
TikTok said the measure was an "extraordinary intrusion on free speech rights".
TikTok is suing the United States government in an effort to block a law that would ban TikTok if its parent company, ByteDance, fails to sell it within a year. The lawsuit, which was filed on Tuesday, argues that the bill violates the U.S. Constitution. TikTok argues that the law violates the U.S. Constitution’s commitment […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
In the lawsuit, TikTok and ByteDance claim the law would force the company to sell the platform to a non-Chinese company in nine to 12 months or face a ban in the U.S. violates users' First Amendment rights.
TikTok is officially challenging the law that could lead to a ban of the app in the United States. The company, which has long claimed that efforts to force a sale or ban of its app are unconstitutional, announced a lawsuit against the federal government. In the lawsuit, TikTok claims that a divestiture of its business from ByteDance is “simply not possible,” and that the “Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act” violates the First Amendment. “They claim that the...
Social media platform Tiktok has alleged that the US government has unconstitutionally banned the platform, challenging the ban in a US court