Eight TikTok users sued the federal government on Tuesday, alleging a law signed by President Joe Biden that requires TikTok to be sold to new owners or be banned in the U.S. violates their First Amendment rights—marking the second lawsuit filed against the government over the potential ban, driven by concerns about TikTok’s Beijing-based parent company.
The new lawsuit against the U.S. comes about a week after TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, sued ... [+]
Tuesday’s suit calls the law “unconstitutionally overbroad” and says it would put an end to a way of communicating that is a “part of American life.”
The TikTok creators who sued the government range from a 43-year-old cattle rancher in Texas to a 29-year-old woman who owns a cookie business in Tennessee.
Last week, ByteDance—TikTok’s China-based parent company—sued the government and claimed the law may violate the First Amendment, and also that a nine-month timeline for a potential sale is “simply not possible.”
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