TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, has filed a lawsuit against the US law that forces the company to sell the app or face a national ban.
As per the Al Jazeera report, the Chinese company’s lawyer has filed the complaint in the US Court of Appeals in Washington, DC, arguing that the law is ‘unconstitutional.’
The lawsuit reads, “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.”
It further argues, “There is no question: the Act will force a shutdown of TikTok by January 19, 2025, silencing the 170 million Americans who use the platform to communicate in ways that cannot be replicated elsewhere.”
In the legal filing, the company said that the new US bill violates the First Amendment and that divestiture is “Simply not possible: not commercially, not technologically, not legally.”
For unversed, Biden, in the middle of April, signed a TikTok ban law, citing national security concerns.
Under the law, ByteDance has nine months to sell off its US-based operation in nine months; otherwise, the video-sharing app will be banned in America.
Moreover, an additional extension of three months will be granted to the company if the sale is in progress.
