Nonprofit Tells D.C. Circuit TikTok Ban Violates 1st Amendment Rights

(July 1, 2024, 12:51 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Joining TikTok Inc. and a group of its social network’s creators in an effort to get the District of Columbia Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals to enjoin enforcement of a recently enacted law that would shut down the platform within the United States, nonprofit educational organization BASED Politics Inc. (BPI) filed its opening brief on June 28, calling the statute an infringement of TikTok users’ rights under the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution because it is a prior restraint on speech....