The popular social networkowned by Chinese company ByteDance, said in documents filed in a Montana federal court that the ban “unparalleled” and it is “unconstitutional”.
“We have filed a lawsuit against the unconstitutional prohibition of TikTok in Montana to protect both our company and hundreds of users,” the company wrote on its Twitter account. Twitter.
In the lawsuit, lawyers represent the social network, which more than 150 million by users in the US, they insist that the state law violates the first amendment of the country’s constitution, which protects freedom of speech, and that it interferes with federal affairs.
The republicans of Montana, who control both houses of the state congress and the governor’s office, are the main promoters of the measure, accusing Tiktok of collect data from your users with the intention of extraditing them to the Chinese Communist Party.
In his TikTok lawsuit defended himself against these allegationswhich he called “unsubstantiated speculation”, claiming that “it has not shared and will not share any user data with the chinese government“.
Source: El heraldo
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