TikTok and civil liberties groups are promising legal challenges after the Montana Legislature approved a bill Friday that bans the China-based social media platform statewide.
Montana's attorney general said he is hopeful that a pending statewide ban of TikTok he helped author could help set a legal precedent for a national ban on the social media platform.
Dexter is one of a number of districts joining a federal suit against the developers of Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Tik Tok, YouTube and others, contending their ‘addictive’ algorithms target vulnerable children and teens.
U.S. lawmakers and officials are ratcheting up threats to ban TikTok, saying the Chinese-owned video-sharing app used by millions of Americans poses a threat to privacy and U.S. national security. But free speech advocates and legal experts say an outright ban would likely face a constitutional hurdle: the First Amendment right to free speech. “If…