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A group of TikTok creators said Tuesday they filed suit in U.S. federal court seeking to block a law signed by President Joe Biden that would force the divestiture of the short video app used by ...
The law specifies that, in the absence of a “qualified divestiture” by ByteDance, the TikTok ban will go into effect 270 days (nine months) after its enactment — which would be Jan. 15, 2025.
TikTok and opponents of the law have argued that a ban would violate First Amendment rights of the social media platform's 170 million U.S. users. Patrick Toomey, deputy director of the ACLU’s National Security Project, previously told The Associated Press that a TikTok ban would “stifle free expression and restrict public access” to a ...
The U.S. Senate voted Tuesday to approve a bill that would ban TikTok nationwide unless Chinese parent company ByteDance sells its stake in the popular app. The development will likely result in a ...
TikTok and its Chinese parent company filed a lawsuit Tuesday challenging a new American law that would ban the popular video-sharing app in the U.S. unless it's sold to an approved buyer, saying it unfairly singles out the platform and is an unprecedented attack on free speech.
A spokesperson for TikTok said the company was covering the legal costs for the lawsuit, which was filed in a Washington appeals court. It is being led by the same law firm that represented creators who challenged Montana’s state-wide ban on the platform last year. In November, a judge blocked that law from going into effect.
April 24, 2024 at 8:23 AM. President Joe Biden signed a bill Wednesday that could lead to a nationwide TikTok ban, escalating a massive threat to the company’s US operations. Congress had passed ...
The No TikTok on Government Devices Act ( S. 3455) was originally introduced in 2020 by Senator Josh Hawley ( R - MO) and passed the United States Senate by unanimous consent on August 6, 2020. [3] The bill ( S. 1143) was reintroduced on April 15, 2021 by Senator Hawley and it passed the Senate by unanimous consent again on December 14, 2022.