TikTok is suing the US authorities — can it beat the ban?
On immediately’s episode of Decoder, Verge editors Alex Heath and Sarah Jeong be a part of me to debate the lawsuit TikTok filed final week towards the US authorities in response to the divest-or-ban invoice.
One motive I needed to have each Alex and Sarah on right here is that there’s a number of forwards and backwards between the info and the legislation; a few of TikTok’s arguments are contradicted by the easy info of what the corporate has already promised to do around the globe, and among the authorized claims are complicated and sit in rigidity with an extended historical past of makes an attempt to manage speech and the web.
TikTok averted a ban as soon as earlier than below the Trump administration. However this time round, the invoice is on much more stable footing, and TikTok is arguing that divesting its US enterprise is just not potential “commercially, technologically, or legally.” So we walked via every of these arguments one after the other.
