The Chinese social network TikTok faces a possible ban in the United States, but it intends to avoid it at all costs and is calling on American justice to decide.
Between the Chinese social network TikTok and the United States is a great story of disenchantment. Not with the population of the country, far from it: The vertical video app is used by about half of Americans. It’s more with the government that things get stuck. It all started when Donald Trump, then president, claimed that the platform owned by the Chinese company ByteDance was a danger for personal data citizens who use it. It is by extension a threat to national security.
Tensions are rising and some states are taking the lead in banning TikTok. Then it’s definitely a law Project which is put on the table. Adopted at the start of 2024, it is very clear: TikTok has a few months to no longer be attached to ByteDance, otherwise the app will be banned of the territory. It is nothing more and nothing less than an order to sell the service to an American company. But is it really legal? Not according to certain rights defenders and even less for TikTok suing the United States.
TikTok files suit against the US government to avoid banning the country
In a 67-page document addressed to the American Court of Appeal, the Chinese social network insists that the law passed recently against it is contrary to the 1st Amendment of the American Constitution. It is he who guarantees the freedom of expression. “For the first time in history, Congress has passed legislation that subjects a single, named speech platform to a permanent nationwide ban and prohibits every American from participating in a single online community of more than ‘a billion people in the world“.
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Force the sale of the application “is not commercially, technologically or legally feasible“, summarizes ByteDance. The company also explains that under its rights to equality before the law, other similar platforms should be banned from the United States in the same way as it. She waits for court declares recent law unconstitutional in order to continue to exist in the country.