On Aug. 15, attorneys representing TikTok and its China-based parent company ByteDance compared themselves to news companies like Politico, Business Insider, and others that publish in the American market in arguing that a ban or forced sale of the company would be unconstitutional.
President Joe Biden earlier this year signed a law that started a countdown to next January requiring ByteDance to either sell the app to a non-Chinese company or be banned in the United States. ByteDance sued, arguing the new law violated the First Amendment and was unconstitutional.
