Eight TikTok creators sued the U.S. government Tuesday over a new law that would force the sale or ban of the popular video app, arguing the law violates their First Amendment rights by potentially shuttering a medium of communication that has become a critical “part of American life.”
The 33-page complaint echoes the arguments TikTok and its China-based parent company, ByteDance, made last week in a separate legal challenge by calling the law “unconstitutionally overbroad” and contending that it would violate the free-speech rights of 170 million users nationwide. President Biden signed the law last month.
