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Threatened US ban against TikTok ‘unconstitutional’, platform argues

Threatened US ban against TikTok ‘unconstitutional’, platform argues



TikTok asserts the law targeting it is a breach of the first amendment protecting freedom of speechTikTok took its case against a threatened US ban to a federal court on Monday where it contended that a law targeting the video platform was “unconstitutional”.TikTok argued its case to a three-judge panel at an appeals court in Washington DC on Monday. An attorney for TikTok and ByteDance, Andrew Pincus, said TikTok was entitled to a right to freedom of speech: “The speech here that is being banned, we would say, or at a minimum burned, is the speech of the US speaker,” Pincus said. Continue reading…



Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/sep/16/threatened-us-ban-against-tiktok-unconstitutional-platform-to-argue

Author : Dan Milmo, Johana Bhuiyan and agency

Publish date : 2024-09-16 15:47:06

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