The Chinese company, ByteDance, filed a legal challenge against a bill that could result in a ban on Tiktok. They claim that the bill violated the company’s First Amendment rights. They claim that it suppresses American’s free speech.

In a landslide vote, and a rare bipartisan vote, the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act was passed by the House in March. The act itself would force ByteDance to sell Tiktok. If they failed to do so in 270 days then the app would be completely restricted. The Senate and Joe Biden signed the bill into law in April. Jacob Helberg, the leader of the committee that monitors trade with China said, “unserious […] to address the national security question at hand” 

TikTok challenged the law in the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. In the meantime the act would be suspended until the court rules. The Chinese Government called it “bullying,” and TikTok states that it is, “simply not possible: not commercially, not technologically, not legally. And certainly not on the 270-day timeline required by the Act.”

While John Moonlenaar, R-Michigan, a congressman who helped draft the act said, “it is telling that TikTok would rather spend its time, money, and effort fighting in court than solving the problem by breaking up with the Chinese Communist Party.”