<img class="i-amphtml-intrinsic-sizer" role="presentation" src="data:;base64,” alt=”” aria-hidden=”true” />TikTok has announced that it has filed a lawsuit against the US state of Montana over a bill introduced by its governor in recent days that would ban the app from 2024.
“We are challenging Montana’s unconstitutional ban on TikTok to protect our business and the hundreds of thousands of TikTok users in Montana. We are confident that our legal recourse will prevail based on precedent and an extremely solid set of facts,” reads a statement published on its profile on the social network Twitter.
The app, which alleges that the ban violates the US Constitution, notes that concerns that the Chinese government could access the data of the app’s users, which are the prime motivation behind the ban, are “unfounded”.
The governor of the US state of Montana, Greg Gianforte, announced a ban on the TikTok application last week, thus becoming the first state to take the measure, arguing that the decision is due to the protection of the personal and private data of Montanans. of the Chinese Communist Party. ,
After that, a group of TikTok content creators — who live in the state and who use the app as an integral part of their businesses or communities — sued the authorities, alleging that the ban violates freedom of expression. is a crime against, compare it to any other type of media.
In addition to accusing Gianforte of infringing on his freedom of speech, they also claim that the ban violates other rights, contrary to the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which, among other things, mandates that a freedom of speech be taken away. Establishes the obligation to establish a fair trial. citizen.
The controversial law, which some lawmakers have called for a nationwide ban on the app, is another step in the banning of TikTok – whose parent company is China’s ByteDance – after security concerns grew regarding its potential use in the West. Application masquerading as a Trojan horse to promote pro-China propaganda or collect user data.
Chinese officials have denounced that, following a cascade of vetoes by several countries – the US, the UK and the European Union – on public administration equipment in recent months, political motives are being hidden without any justification for the actual technology.
