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TikTok Plans Lawsuit to Block U.S.’s Divest-or-Ban Legislation If It Becomes Law
TikTok is gearing up a legal fight against a potential U.S. law banning the app, with plans to challenge it in court on First Amendment grounds.
“At the stage that the bill is signed, we will move to the courts for a legal challenge,” Michael Beckerman, TikTok’s head of public policy for the Americas, wrote in a memo to the company’s staff over the weekend. Beckerman’s message to employees came in the wake of the U.S. House of Representatives’ passage Saturday by a 360-58 vote of a revised version of a previous TikTok ban bill it had passed. “Banning TikTok would selectively target one platform, and the speech rights of its 170 million users would be collateral damage,” Kate Ruane, director of the Center for Democracy & Technology’s Free Expression Project, said in a statement.
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