Former US National Security Officials Defend Divest-or-Ban Law on TikTok

Published on August 3, 2024

About 20 former U.S. national security officials filed a legal brief in an appellate court on Aug. 2 to defend the divest-or-ban law on TikTok, a video app owned by its Beijing-based parent company ByteDance. The law, enacted in April with broad bipartisan support, requires ByteDance to sell TikTok, or the app will be banned in app stores on mobile devices and on web hosting platforms in the United States. The initial deadline for such divestiture is Jan. 19, 2025, and at the U.S. president’s discretion, TikTok may be given an additional three months to complete the transaction. Within two weeks, TikTok challenged the new law’s constitutionality, arguing that the U.S. government infringed on the First Amendment rights of TikTok and its users over national security concerns....

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