Lawyers for the US Justice Department, TikTok, and a group of the platform’s users are scheduled to argue in court on Monday over a US law outlawing Chinese ...
Lawyers for the US Justice Department, TikTok, and a group of the platform’s users are scheduled to argue in court on Monday over aThe law says ByteDance must divest control of TikTok by Jan. 19 or face a nationwide ban. It also precludes any ongoing relationship between TikTok's US operations and affiliated entities controlled by a foreign adversary.
Lawyers for the US Justice Department said in a court filing that the case involves classified information that may be disclosed only to the judges.Legal experts say the panel may not buy TikTok’s arguments that content on the platform qualifies as TikTok or ByteDance’s own speech or that, as a foreign company, it should be afforded full constitutional protections.The Supreme Court has carved out some exceptions, including a First Amendment right for US companies to make campaign contributions.
"ByteDance is not owned or controlled by the Chinese government. It is a private company," TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew testified to members of Congress that same month.
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