TikTok fight against the United States:

Washington DC – Tiktok facing pushback in one Federal court on Monday in their efforts to stop a law that requires the app to be divested from its Chinese ownership or meet a ban In the United States.

A three-judge panel of the US Appeal Court of Washington heard arguments from Tiktok, its change of ownership and a group of users claiming that the ban violates freedom of speech and is unconstitutional.

The US government claims that Tictok allows Beijing to collect data and spy on users. It also says that Tiktok is a lead to spread propaganda. China and the company strongly deny these claims.

TikTok has until January to Find a buyer Or meet the ban, which is likely to provoke a strong response from the Chinese government and further strain the relations between the US and China.

It would also increase social media operations and Rile many of the app’s 170 million American users.

Bytate dance, Tiktok’s parent company, has said that it has no plans to sell TikTok and submit the app’s legal appeal – focused on US guarantees for freedom of speech – as its only alternative for survival.

“The law before this court is outstanding. Its effect would be astonishing,” said Andrew Pincus, the lawyer argued on behalf of the very popular app for video sharing.

“For the first time in history, Congress has explicitly directed a specific American speaker (ie Tiktok USA),” he added.

In their questions, the judges questioned this argument and compared it with previous cases in US case law.

This included a case from the 1980s that closing Palestine Information Office in Washington DC was considered legal because it is supported by PLO, an organization officially appointed a terrorist group.

Tiktok’s lawyer counteracted: “Only foreign ownership cannot possibly be a justification, as it would reverse the first amendment (protective freedom of expression) on the head.”

He added to see foreign ownership alone as a criterion for compulsory waste “would be a rather shocking change here”, with reference to other foreign media companies such as Politico, Al Jazeera and the BBC.

The lawyer also questioned why the US law did not target e-commerce sites with similar Chinese ownership.

Pincus said that if you followed the logic of the US government, which he did not disagree with, “certainly these places may well be susceptible to (China’s) action, but they have been excluded by Congress (in the law.)”

The judges grilled the US government as to whether Tiktok USA, a US-based company, should be denied its rights for free speech.

The US government lawyer, Daniel Tenny, insisted that the content directed was a recommendation algorithm based on Bytaddance in China, not something created by American users and that it was therefore out of reach of freedom of speech.

“There is really no dispute here that the recommendation engine is maintained, developed and written by prey dance, rather than TikTok us, and that is what is directed,” Tenny claimed.

The trio of the judges will determine the case in the coming weeks or months, but regardless of their decision, the case is likely to reach the United States Supreme Court, experts say.

Fate for Americans’ access to Tiktok has become a prominent issue in the country’s political debates.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump have recently Opposed the TikTok ban Although they tried to ban the app as President 2020 on national security problems.

Democratic president Joe Bidenwhose vice president Kamala Harris Run against Trump, signed the law that gives TikTok until January to throw its Chinese ownership or be banished from the US market.