TikTok files lawsuit against Montana over download ban

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Source: NBC News

TikTok filed a lawsuit against Montana on Monday over a new law aimed at stopping people from downloading the app, arguing the ban violates the First Amendment.

"We are challenging Montana’s unconstitutional TikTok ban to protect our business and the hundreds of thousands of TikTok users in Montana," a spokesperson for the company said after the suit was filed. "We believe our legal challenge will prevail based on an exceedingly strong set of precedents and facts." TikTok is seeking an "order invalidating and preliminarily and permanently enjoining Defendant from enforcing the TikTok Ban," according to the complaint.

Gov. Greg Gianforte signed a bill last week restricting downloads of the immensely popular social media app into law, making Montana the first state to ban TikTok. The law makes it illegal for app stores to give users the option to download TikTok and illegal for the company to operate within the state.

In addition to First Amendment concerns, the complaint states that the ban violates a federal preemption, meaning matters of national security and foreign affairs are carried out by the federal government rather than the states.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/tiktok-lawsuit-montana-download-ban-rcna85332

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They will probably win too.

[MontanaMama]

1. I predict TikTok will win this.

Just another example of the pathetic culture wars the GQP has going at the moment.

[peppertree]

3. Gianforte can always try body-slamming them

I'm sure it'll go over great in court.

[MontanaMama]

9. And he might!

He’s just that shortsighted and full of himself.

[Shermann]

5. Agreed

Can you realistically have a law that an app can't be used in your state?

What if you stand directly over the state line? Do you have to limit the app window size to half of your screen?

You funny Montana.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

2. Classic government interference in citizen speech. As opposed to corporate interfering, not covered.

The Plaintiff will win, with bells on…the discovery process with be interesting…how many contacts with fascist fox types?

[AZLD4Candidate]

14. Yet I don't see you complaining about Tik Tok's home country banning everything that isn't Chinese

Again, you really need to stop listening to Jimmy Dore.

[AllaN01Bear]

4. and how would montana find out that i downloaded tick tock and what would b e there to stop me?

go get em tick tock.

[BadgerKid]

6. I wondered if this was testing the waters for nationwide monitoring.

[MontanaMama]

10. Exactly.

Gianforte is crazy if he thinks this will stand. We are laughing at the thug governor of our beautiful state.

[LisaM]

7. Pretty soon every GOP governor will be dealing with lawsuits.

DeSantis is piling them up. Texas is being sued over abortion laws. Now Montana.

At some point, this has got to hit the pocketbooks of people who live in those states.

[GB_RN]

8. Many Of Those People...

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Don’t care: For them, it’s all about “owning the libs” or whatever other bullshit the Reichwing comes up with to distract the rubes. The cruelty, etc., is a feature, not a bug, and the whole point. Now just to be clear, that’s not all of the people in those states by any means, but a lot of them.

[MontanaMama]

11. Many many of us do care.

I know people who never used Tik Tok before who downloaded the app just as an FU to the thug.

[GB_RN]

13. I Know...

Which is why I qualified my statement, so as not to paint everyone with the same brush. I live in NC, which used to be fairly sane, but got taken over by the KKKlanbaggers in 2010-11 and have since gerrymandered themselves into near-permanent, supermajority status, despite the state being divided roughly equal between the parties.

God, I hate these assholes. I hate 'em all.

[MontanaMama]

12. Montanans paying attention wish

the thug Governor and the legislature would focus on things that would make our lives better…instead these assholes are working overtime to take rights away, privatize public land and turn Montana in a playground for the wealthy and well connected.