{"id":1142100,"date":"2023-05-22T16:06:42","date_gmt":"2023-05-22T20:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1142100"},"modified":"2023-05-22T16:06:42","modified_gmt":"2023-05-22T20:06:42","slug":"tiktok-is-suing-montana-over-law-banning-the-app-in-the-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1142100","title":{"rendered":"TikTok is suing Montana over law banning the app in the state"},"content":{"rendered":"

TikTok filed a lawsuit Monday in the U.S. District Court of Montana to challenge the state\u2019s ban<\/a> of the social platform, as reported by<\/a>The Wall Street Journal<\/em>. The case was brought against the state Attorney General Austin Knudsen.<\/p>\n

Montana\u2019s governor signed the bill banning the app in the state last week, one month after the state\u2019s legislature passed it<\/a>. The following day, a group of creators sued the state<\/a> along similar grounds as TikTok\u2019s suit today. The law is set to take effect on January 1st, 2024.<\/p>\n

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We are challenging Montana\u2019s unconstitutional TikTok ban to protect our business and the hundreds of thousands of TikTok users in Montana. We believe our legal challenge will prevail based on an exceedingly strong set of precedents and facts.<\/p>\n

\u2014 TikTokComms (@TikTokComms) May 22, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

The law prohibits the ByteDance-owned platform from operating in the state, as well as preventing app stores from listing the app for download. Although it isn’t clear how Montana plans to enforce the ban, it states that violations will tally fines of $10,000 per day. However, individual TikTok users won\u2019t be charged.<\/p>\n

This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.<\/em><\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Engadget at https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/tiktok-is-suing-montana-over-law-banning-the-app-in-the-state-200642508.html?src=rss
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TikTok filed a lawsuit Monday in the U.S. District Court of Montana to challenge the state\u2019s ban of the social platform, as reported byThe Wall Street Journal. The case was brought against the state Attorney General Austin Knudsen. Montana\u2019s governor … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99,110],"tags":[98],"class_list":["post-1142100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engadget","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-engadget"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1142100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1142100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1142100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1142100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}