Popular social media app, TikTok is suing to block a new US law that could force a nationwide ban of the popular application. Tiktok’s move is coming after legal threats the company issued after US President, Joe Biden signed the legislation last month.
If TikTok loses the case, the company could be banned from US app stores unless its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, sells the app to a non-Chinese entity by mid-January 2025.
In its petition filed at the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, Bytedance allege the new law is unconstitutional because it stifles Americans’ speech and prevents them from accessing lawful information.
It read, “For the first time in history. Congress has enacted a law that subjects a single, named speech platform to a permanent, nationwide ban, and bars every American from participating in a unique online community with more than 1 billion people worldwide.”
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