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A Google Shareholder Is Suing the Company Over the TikTok Ban


Silicon Valley software engineer Tony Tan says his battle against Google and the Trump administration is about upholding the rule of law.

“The biggest thing that motivates me here is I’ve been frustrated by the volume of recent attacks on our legal system,” says Tan, who is in his late 20s and owns a small number of Alphabet shares directly and through investment funds. After years of congressional debate and a legal battle that made it up to the Supreme Court, a law banning companies such as Apple and Google from helping to distribute TikTok and other Chinese apps in the US went into effect this past January. This February, Tan filed a public records request with the US Department of Justice seeking copies of letters that Attorney General Pam Bondi reportedly sent to companies such as Google and Apple advising them that they would not be held liable for continuing to distribute TikTok.

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