The Montana Legislature has passed a bill that would ban the TikTok platform from being made available on mobile app stores starting January 1, 2024
Its president and CEO TikTok appeared “confident” today that the company will be vindicated in its lawsuit against the US state of Montana, which has adopted a law banning the use of the platform from next year.
“We have just started a legal process, the case is in the courts and we are confident that we will be vindicated,” said Su Zi Chu, president and CEO of TikTok.
“The Montana bill, which was recently adopted, is simply unconstitutional,” he added during an economic forum in Qatar.
TikTok is owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, and many US politicians believe that the platform, which is used by 150 million people in the US, allows Beijing to spy on and manipulate users. The company categorically denies this.
In mid-April, the Montana legislature adopted a bill that prohibits from January 1, 2024 the availability of the TikTok platform from the app stores for mobile phones (Apple and Google), under penalty of a fine of 10,000 dollars per day.
The law will be annulled, if ByteDance is acquired by a US company or a company from a country that is not considered an enemy of the US.
The White House has demanded that ByteDance find such a solution to be allowed to continue operating in the country. Joe Biden’s administration is discussing with Congress various draft laws to ban the TikTok app, as executive orders signed by his predecessor Donald Trump to that end have failed.
Source :Skai
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