TikTok has filed suit against a threatened ban in the US. The short-form video platform and its Chinese parent company ByteDance filed a lawsuit against the US government’s corresponding law on Tuesday in a federal appeals court in the District of Columbia. The text states that the law violates the constitution, including the protection of freedom of expression.
According to the lawsuit, the requested divestment is “simply not possible: neither commercially, nor technologically, nor legally.” TikTok will therefore have to be stopped in the US as of January 19.
That will “silence the 170 million Americans who use the platform to communicate in ways that cannot be replicated elsewhere.”
TikTok has provided the Reuters news agency with a copy of its claim statement. There was initially no statement from the US government. President Joe Biden signed the law on April 24 that gave ByteDance until January 19 to sell TikTok. Otherwise there is a risk of a ban.
US politicians fear China could use the app to access or spy on US data. The government in Beijing and ByteDance reject this.
Source: Krone
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