ByteDance makes stand against forced sale in the US [Video]

Joe Biden and the US Congress gave China’s social media giant ByteDance choices: surrender its TikTok business in the US, flee or fight. It’s chosen the latter.

On Tuesday, TikTok launched a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of new laws passed by Congress and signed by Biden late last month that direct a sale or ban of the social media app’s US business by January 19 next year. That is, coincidentally, or not, the day before the inauguration of whoever wins the presidency in the US elections in November.

The lawsuit, which seeks a court order preventing enforcement of the bipartisan legislation, argues that the law violates the First Amendment, or the free speech rights of its 170 million US users.