TikTok sues the US government over ban

Every negative thing about Tiktok is also true about Instagram and Twitter.

TikTok blocks all access from Hong Kong. Can I sue them?

Good. The ban is censorship dressed up as national security.

What would give them standing? They'd have to be an entity protected by the constitution to claim that protection was harmed. Is it this (Wikipedia)?

TikTok Ltd was incorporated in the Cayman Islands and is based in both Singapore and Los Angeles. source

I guess I've never thought about what makes an entity have rights here. Buckingham Palace couldn't just open shop here and start suing our government, right?

grabs popcorn

as expected, they literally said they would pusue legal options before pulling out of the us.

At this point, I'd like to ask: If a foreign company threatens democracy in a country, is it legal for the executive to ban business with that company?

No? Then that doesn't make sense. It's a FOREIGN company, the government should have the right to do whatever it needs to protect its citizens in that regard.

When does a company care about the constitution? When it’s profits are threatened and the constitution suits their argument.

Down with vertical videos, down with short form content!

PS, China already bought all your personal data from Facebook.

I do not care.

The ironic thing is that if the US government wanted people to stop using it because of the PRC, they should have just leaked some fake Snowden style documents saying that the NSA was using it. Everyone would drop it like a hot potato then.

Not a fan of tiktok content but I do see that it was banned obviously for censorship. A good move.