tick tock sued for block A law that would force applications to be sold from China-based parent company ByteDance or banned from entering the United States.
TikTok and ByteDance argued in a lawsuit filed Tuesday against the U.S. government that the law, the Protection of Americans from Foreign Enemies Act, violates the First Amendment.
The law gives ByteDance 270 days to sell TikTok to a new company that will be allowed to operate in the U.S. or the app will be banned from U.S. networks and online application stores. That will happen. The president could give ByteDance an additional 90 days to sell TikTok if he deems it necessary.
But TikTok said a “qualified sale” would be “commercially, technically and legally impossible” and would lead to the app’s closure in the U.S., cutting off millions of daily users. He argued that it would happen.
Updated at 12:33 p.m.
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