The social network TikTok is moving towards a legal battle with the President of the United States of America, Joe Biden, by filing a court request to review a law that could lead to a ban on the platform in the United States on the grounds that it is unconstitutional.
This was reported by The Washington Post.
In their 67-page petition to review the law's constitutionality, filed against Attorney General Merrick Garland, TikTok and ByteDance say the law would give the government unprecedented power to monitor or take down a platform it doesn't like.
"The ban on TikTok is so clearly unconstitutional that even the authors of the law recognized this reality and therefore tried their best to portray the law not as a ban at all, but simply as a regulation of TikTok ownership," the lawsuit says.
WP believes the Chinese have a chance to win in court because the U.S. has yet to provide evidence that China collected TikTok user data for espionage purposes or distorted its recommendation algorithm for propaganda purposes, although the law's authors said the possibility of future impact was sufficient reason for the ban.
