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Appeals court upholds TikTok ban, declining to block law that would force sale
An appeals court judge wrote that the law that would force a sale or ban of TikTok "survive[s] constitutional scrutiny."
A panel of three judges from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit unanimously sided with the Justice Department in declining to review the petition for relief from TikTok and ByteDance, its Chinese parent company, saying the law is constitutional. Circuit found that the government's national-security justifications for banning TikTok — to counter China's efforts to collect Americans' data and limit its ability to manipulate content covertly on the platform — are "wholly consistent" with the First Amendment. TikTok and ByteDance filed a legal challenge in May that called the legislation "an extraordinary and unconstitutional assertion of power" based on "speculative and analytically flawed concerns about data security and content manipulation" that would suppress the speech of millions of Americans.
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