TikTok Inc. and its Chinese owner ByteDance Ltd. on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against the U.S. federal government seeking to block a law that could lead to a nationwide ban on the popular short-form video-sharing platform.The companies claimed the law signed by President Joe Biden last month is groundlessly singling out the social media platform as a national security threat and is "unconstitutional" as it could trample the free speech rights of 170 million American TikTok users."If Congress can do this, it can circumvent the First Amendment by invoking national security and ordering the publ…READ FULL ARTICLE
