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- TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, has filed a lawsuit against the federal US government.
- The company argues the law requiring it to sell TikTok to a non-Chinese company or get banned is unconstitutional.
- The lawsuit also alleges that the nine to 12-month window to sell is not possible.
Since President Joe Biden signed the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act in April, TikTok’s presence in the US has been on borrowed time. But that bill passing hasn’t stopped TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, from attempting to fight back. Now ByteDance has filed a lawsuit arguing that the looming ban for its app is unconstitutional.
As reported by ABC News, ByteDance has filed a 65-page petition to the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. The company claims that a nationwide ban would infringe on users’s First Amendment rights.