TikTok Sues Montana, Says Ban Violates First Amendment
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TikTok sued Montana, alleging state legislation banning the video-sharing app violates the First Amendment. The Chinese-owned video app previously fought former President Donald Trump over a similar ban.
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“Montana can no more ban its residents from viewing or posting to TikTok than it could ban the Wall Street Journal because of who owns it or the ideas it publishes,” the lawsuit said.
A group of TikTok users has sued to overturn Montana’s new statewide ban blocking the app, alleging that the law signed this week by Gov. Greg Gianforte violates the First Amendment.
Some users of the Communist Chinese government-tied spyware TikTok are suing the state of Montana for banning the app that poses a serious data security hazard.
HELENA, Mont. — Five TikTok content creators have filed a lawsuit seeking to overturn Montana’s first-in-the-nation ban on the video sharing app, arguing the law is an unconstitutional violation of free speech rights.
The law would have much more far-reaching effects than bans already in place in nearly half the states and the U.S. federal government that prohibit use of the app on government devices.
Just hours after Montana announced a new law banning the TikTok app statewide from next year, a group of TikTok users has sued in a bid to block the ban.
Montana became the first state to ban TikTok, citing fears that the app’s Chinese-owned parent company could be providing Americans’ data to the Chinese government. Montana could be a testing ground for other state and national leaders considering bans on the nation’s fastest-growing app.
The five TikTok content creators who filed the lawsuit are Montana residents, and they argued “that the state doesn’t have any authority over matters of national security.”
Social media company TikTok Inc. filed a lawsuit Monday seeking to overturn Montana's first-in-the-nation ban on the video sharing app, arguing the law is an unconstitutional violation of free speech…
TikTok says Montana does not have the authority to weigh in on national security issues and that the law deprives American TikTok users of their free speech rights.
