Washington (MidLand) – Online video entertainment platform TikTok and its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, on Tuesday (7/5) filed a lawsuit against the US government over a law that forces ByteDance to sell the app or face a nationwide ban in the US.
US President Joe Biden signed a bill (RUU) banning TikTok last month, after it passed both houses of the US Congress.
“Congress has taken the unprecedented step of intentionally isolating and banning TikTok: an active online forum for protected speech and expression used by 170 million Americans to create, share and view videos on the Internet,” TikTok said in its petition filed in the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.
In the petition, TikTok added that, for the first time in history, the US Congress has passed a law targeting a specific platform with a permanent nationwide ban and banning all Americans from participating in online communities unique ones that have more than 1 billion users worldwide.
TikTok explains in its petition that the law, protecting Americans from applications controlled by the Foreign Competitors Act, is unconstitutional.
“The TikTok ban is clearly unconstitutional, even supporters of the law recognize this fact, and therefore do their best to portray the law not as a ban, but simply as a regulation of TikTok ownership,” TikTok continued.
The law gives ByteDance just 270 days to sell TikTok to a non-Chinese buyer, with the possibility of a 90-day extension if the US president deems it necessary.
“However, in reality, there is no choice,” TikTok said.
TikTok has also defined the “qualified divestment” required by law for the platform to continue operating in the United States as completely impossible: neither commercially, nor technologically, nor legally.
The TikTok ban, citing US national security interests, has drawn widespread criticism from various parties, both inside and outside the US. People are questioning the motivation behind Washington’s crackdown on the popular app. Concerns also emerged regarding violations of constitutional rights and principles of fair competition.
Translator: Xinhua
Editor: Natisha Andarningtyas
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