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TikTok has filed a lawsuit against the US government challenging a recently passed law that will force its Chinese parent company ByteDance to sell the popular video app or face a nationwide ban by January 2024.
The company argues the law violates the Constitution by stifling free speech and will devastate its over 1 billion global users, 7 million business partners, and US$24 billion ($36.4 billion) annual US economic contribution.
The company spent US$1.5 billion moving its US operations to domestic data centres under the oversight of Oracle but failed to convince lawmakers of sufficient data security.
It sets up a potential prolonged legal battle requiring national security evidence disclosure as ByteDance resists a forced sale with the looming divestiture deadline.
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