US proposal requiring ByteDance to spin off TikTok within 165 days was refuted as unconstitutional

News from this site on March 6, according to Reuters, a bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers proposed legislation on Tuesday to give ByteDance 165 days to divest popular short videos Use TikTok or face a US ban.

A TikTok spokesperson responded on Tuesday: “No matter how it tries to hide it, this bill is an outright ban on TikTok.

This legislation would trample on the First Amendment rights of 170 million Americans, and deprive 5 million small businesses of the platform they rely on to develop and create jobs."

reported that the proposal is expected to undergo a preliminary vote on Thursday.

According to previous reports, at the end of November last year, a U.S. judge banned Montana’s first state-level ban on TikTok, holding that the ban violated the user’s right to free speech.

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