The high-stakes legal battle could determine the future of the popular app in the U.S. TikTok's legal filing calls the ban law an unprecedented violation of First Amendment rights.
TikTok's suit is in response to a law passed by Congress giving ByteDance up to a year to divest from TikTok and find a new buyer, or face a nationwide ban.against the United States over a law that President Biden signed last month, which would outlaw the app nationwide unless it finds a buyer within a year.
But in the company's legal petition, lawyers for TikTok say invoking"national security" does not give the government a free pass to violate the First Amendment, especially, TikTok, argues, when not public evidence has been presented of the Chinese government using the app as a weapon against Americans.
Congress has never before passed legislation that could outright ban a wildly popular social media app, an act the U.S. government has criticized authoritarian nations for doing. Former Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin told NPR on Monday, he is planning to assemble a group of investors to try to purchase TikTok without the app's algorithm.
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