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 that 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.