Another week and another chapter in the tug of war between ByteDance – parent company of TikTok – and the government of United States.
The Chinese giant has in fact presented an official judicial document against the law called “Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act”, approved at the end of April by American President Joe Biden.
This law puts TikTok faced with a forced choice: sell his US business or face a ban in all 50 states. Ban scheduled for January 19, 2025.
TikTok sues the United States: what’s happening?
The law signed by Biden – at least on paper – concerns national security. The United States believes that TikTok and its algorithm pose a threat for American citizens. This due to the potential misuse that the Chinese government could make of the data collected by the platform.
However, TikTok has denied these accusations, claiming that the US government has yet to present concrete evidence to support its claims. Here is what we read in the document presented by the Chinese giant.
“Statements from individual members of Congress and a congressional committee report merely indicate concern that TikTok could be misused in the future, without citing specific evidence, even though the platform has operated prominently in the United States since since its birth in 2017″
Via The Verge
The proposal to divest TikTok’s business exclusively in the US market to avoid the ban is therefore being considered by ByteDance commercially, technologically and legally impracticable. Furthermore, the Chinese government dictates restrictions that would make it impossible to sell TikTok along with its algorithm.
Therefore, TikTok has declared that the either-or imposed by the United States is inadmissible, and has filed a request to the court, citing the First Amendment. The substance TikTok believes that the obligation to sell is unconstitutional.
Meanwhile, just last week, TikTok finally struck a new deal with Universal Music. This will allow the music of artists linked to the label to return to the social network owned by ByteDance, after the Universal catalog was removed last January.
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