![]() ![]() The company says in its lawsuit that it "has not shared, and would not share, U.S. TikTok estimates it has hundreds of thousands of active users in the state, which has a total of about 1.1 million residents. Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Mark Warner said the likelihood of federal courts overturning Montana's ban made it even more essential for Congress to pass the legislation he introduced to give the president new powers to ban or impose restrictions on TikTok and other foreign-owned apps. TikTok app logo is seen in this illustration taken, August 22, 2022. use of the apps, but a series of court decisions blocked the bans from taking effect. It is not clear how Montana would enforce a TikTok ban.įormer President Donald Trump in 2020 sought to bar new downloads of TikTok and Chinese-owned WeChat, a unit of Tencent (0700.HK), and related transactions, which the companies said at the time could have effectively barred U.S. The law does not impose penalties on individual TikTok users. Montana could impose fines of $10,000 for each violation by TikTok and additional fines of $10,000 per day if it violates the ban. ![]() ![]() lawmakers and state officials to ban the app nationwide over concerns about potential Chinese government influence over the platform. TikTok, which is owned by China's ByteDance and used by more than 150 million Americans, has faced growing calls from U.S. Constitution, which limits the authority of States to enact legislation that unduly burdens interstate and foreign commerce. District Court in Montana, also argues the ban is pre-empted by federal law because it intrudes upon matters of exclusive federal concern and violates the Commerce Clause of the U.S. 1, violates First Amendment rights of the company and users. TikTok argues the ban, which would take effect on Jan. May 22 (Reuters) - TikTok Inc on Monday filed a lawsuit challenging the state of Montana's new ban on use of the Chinese-owned app, the first state to bar the popular short-video sharing service. ![]()
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