TikTok Sues U.S. Government Over Ban – By Oscar Gonzalez (Gizmodo) / May 7, 2024
The social video platform says the law is unconstitutional.
On Tuesday, TikTok fired back against the U.S. government over a law that could put an end to the social video platform.
TikTok and its parent company Bytedance’s lawsuit against the federal government claims the legislation circumvents the First Amendment. The company says the law’s requirement for TikTok to be divested is “not possible: not commercially, not technologically, not legally.”
“There is no question: the Act will force a shutdown of TikTok by January 19, 2025, silencing the 170 million Americans who use the platform to communicate in ways that cannot be replicated elsewhere,” TikTok said in the petition filed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
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