It is owned by a Chinese company, and under China law, if you are based in China, you will cooperate with the Chinese Communist Party. “TikTok is a tool of the Chinese Communist Party. Period,” Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen told a legislative committee in March. TikTok says it has never been asked to hand over its data and it wouldn’t do so if asked. TikTok says none of this has ever happened.Ī former executive at ByteDance alleges the tech giant has served as a “propaganda tool” for the Chinese government, a claim ByteDance says is baseless.Ĭhina passed laws in 20 that compel companies to cooperate with the country’s government for state intelligence work.
citizens or push pro-Beijing misinformation that could influence the public. Some lawmakers, the FBI and officials at other agencies are concerned the video-sharing app, owned by ByteDance, could be used to allow the Chinese government to access information on U.S. Cybersecurity experts say it could be difficult to enforce. The case could serve as a testing ground for the TikTok-free America many national lawmakers have envisioned.
The lawsuit - filed just hours after Gianforte signed the measure into law - states the ban would “immediately and permanently deprive Plaintiffs of their ability to express themselves and communicate with others.” “Montana can no more ban its residents from viewing or posting to TikTok than it could ban the Wall Street Journal because of who owns it or the ideas it publishes,” the plaintiffs’ attorneys wrote. TikTok creators can make money in several ways, including by being paid to advertise products to their followers. Her account has 97,000 followers and has allowed her to roughly triple her family’s household income, the complaint states. One content creator, Carly Ann Goddard, shares videos about living on a ranch, parenting, recipes and home decor. Two of them have more than 200,000 followers. The plaintiffs are Montana residents who use the video-sharing app for things like promoting a business, connecting with military veterans, sharing outdoor adventures or expressing their sense of humor. She also declined to say whether the company helped coordinate the complaint.
However, spokesperson Brooke Oberwetter declined to comment on the lawsuit Thursday.
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