to pass a complete ban on the app based on the argument that the Chinese government could gain access to user information from TikTok, whose parent company, ByteDance, is based in Beijing. The ban, which was scheduled to take effect Jan. 1, was first brought before the Montana Legislature ...
A federal appeals court has left in place a mid-January deadline in a federal law requiring TikTok to be sold or face a ban in the United States. Judges on the U.S.
ByteDance, TikTok's parent company, has stated it has no plans to sell TikTok, leaving the app's legal appeal -- focused on US guarantees for free speech -- as its only option for survival. A ban would likely provoke a strong response from the Chinese government and further strain US-Ch...
Efforts to restrict access to TikTok because of national security concerns are not new, and more than 30 states and the federal government ban the app on state-issued devices. The Trump administration attempted to ban the app in 2020, but TikTok and users who challenged former President Donald ...
The legal filing was made after a panel of three judges on the same court sided with the government last week and ruled that the law, which requires TikTok's China-based parent company ByteDance to divest its stakes in the social media company or face a ban, was constitutional. ...
solicitor general during the first Trump administration, the company contended that blocking enforcement of the law would not “materially harm” the federal government. Even the government, Francisco observed, “asserts only that China ‘could’ engage in harmful conduct through TikTok, not that ...
Both the lawsuit and motion for injunction state that the government has offered no clear evidence proving TikTok, which is owned by Chinese tech giant ByteDance, poses a threat to U.S. national security. Ryan has raised more than $26,000 through a GoFundMe campaign, with the goal of reachi...
TikTok has repeatedly denied that it shares any data with the Chinese government, and though some are concerned with privacy, others say bans on social media platforms limit the right to freedom of speech. The ACLU was quick to criticize the ban at its original passing, and wrote that the ...
TikTok, which sued the government over the law in May, has long denied it could be used by Beijing to spy on or manipulate Americans. Its attorneys have accurately pointed out that the U.S. hasn’t provided evidence to show that the company handed over user data ...
This concern renders the situation particularly combustible given that the Chinese government is unlikely to allow the algorithm to be conveyed in the event that TikTok’s US operations are divested. The discussion around a potential ban on TikTok has been, to my mind, distracted by an unhelpful...