TikTok challenged the US government’s assertion that the Chinese-owned app was being targeted owing to threats related to its ownership, suggesting that the push for a “sell-or-ban” law stemmed from the company’s refusal to censor certain viewpoints.
Its filing comes as Justice Department argues the law is meant to cut the popular short-video app’s ties to the Chinese government
TikTok on Friday challenged the US government’s assertion that the Chinese-owned app was being targeted owing to threats related to its ownership, suggesting that the push for a “sell-or-ban” law stemmed from the company’s refusal to censor certain viewpoints.
“The startling proposition that there should be no judicial scrutiny of a law shuttering a speech platform used by 170 million Americans would mean Congress could ban petitioners from operating TikTok explicitly because they refused to censor views Congress disfavours or to promote views it likes,” stated TikTok, and its parent company ByteDance, in their latest filing at the US Supreme Court.
The submission said several US lawmakers had accused the platform’s content of being “too pro-Palestine”.
