WASHINGTON (apro).-The Chinese company, ByteDance, owner of TikTok, sued the United States federal government for the law enacted last month by President Joe Biden, which gave the Asian firm one year to sell its social network or otherwise be banned.
In its lawsuit, ByteDance maintains that the law approved by the Capitol and endorsed by Biden’s signature, maintains that the measure violates the first amendment (freedom of expression and press) of the 170 million Americans subscribed to TikTok.
The litigation that will occur in the middle of the presidential campaign opens the door to an international lawsuit between the United States and China, at the same time exacerbating the annoyance of TikTok users in the United States who deplored the law that could prevent them from using the social network.
The argument of the ByteDance lawsuit emphasizes that the basis of the law on TikTok is a lie and very vague, which argues that the social network, being operated and belonging to a company from China, poses a risk to the national security of the United States. .
When the legislation was analyzed in Congress, before Biden signed it into law, Republicans and Democrats argued that through TikTok the Chinese government has the technological capacity to spy on and violate US national security.
“Veting TikTok is obviously unconstitutional, in fact, the first amendment sponsors and recognizes the livelihood (of the social network) so it powerfully tries to represent the law not as a prohibition but as a regulation of the owners,” the statement reads. Chinese demand.
To support its case, ByteDance tells the Federal Court in the US capital that it is not commercially or technologically possible to sell TikTok to a US company within a year; as stipulated by law that threatens to ban the social network.
Although it does not indicate it as an argument, the lawsuit alleges that Biden signed the law also for electoral interests in the face of Donald Trump’s re-election campaign, who was never able to enact the law against TikTok due to legislative opposition.
The TikTok platform is one of the most popular in the United States, and an alternative for its users to obtain economic profits from the content they publish on it and encourages the creativity of entrepreneurs, artists and others; according to the analysis of the current international dispute.
The ByteDance company is willing to go to the final consequences of the case, before being forced to sell the TikTok platform to an American firm.
Legal specialists predict that the judicial dispute would take many months to be resolved in the Federal Court, taking into account the arguments of ByteDance, a company whose valuation in international markets oscillates at 268 billion dollars.
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2024-05-09 05:58:05