On March 12, 2024, on Capitol Hill in Washington, the United States, TikTok creators gathered in front of a press conference to express their opposition to the “Protecting Americans from Applications Controlled by Foreign Adversaries Act”, which is waiting to be passed by the House of Representatives to crack down on TikTok legislation.
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eight Tik Tok Creators sued the U.S. government on Tuesday to block a recently passed law that would force ByteDance to divest social media apps or face a ban, saying the law violates first amendmenta lawyer representing the group said in a post on X.
In documents shared by attorney Davis Wright Tremaine, the group said the law gives TikTok parent company ByteDance nine months to find a buyer for the app. “It undermines the country’s founding principles and the free marketplace of ideas.”
The law “promises to shut down discrete communications media that have become part of American life, prohibiting petitioners from creating and disseminating expressive material with editors and publishers of their choice,” the lawsuit states.
TikTok itself sued the United States last week over the legislation, citing free speech arguments in the lawsuit.
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