TikTok vows legal fight after Biden signs unconstitutional ban: We arent going anywhere

TikTok has vowed to wage a legal war after President Biden signed into law a bipartisan bill that forces its Beijing-based parent company to sell the popular video-sharing app or face a US ban.“Rest assured — we aren’t going anywhere,” Tiktok CEO Shou Zi Chew said in a video posted moments after Biden signed the bill that gives ByteDance 270 days to divest TikTok’s US assets.

“The facts and the Constitution are on our side and we expect to prevail.”Biden’s signing sets a Jan.19 deadline for a sale — one day before his term expires — but he could extend the deadline by three months if he determines ByteDance is making progress on a deal.Chew, however, promised the app’s 170 million US users that TikTok would continue to operate as the company challenges the restrictions.

“This unconstitutional law is a TikTok ban, and we will challenge it in court,” a TikTok spokesperson told The Post.“This ban would devastate 7 million businesses and silence 170 million Americans.” Driven by widespread worries among US lawmakers that China could access Americans’ data or surveil them with the app, the bill was overwhelmingly passed late on Tuesday by the Senate.The House approved it on Saturday.The four-year battle over TikTok is a significant front in a war over the internet and technology between Washington and Beijing.

Last week, Apple said China had ordered it to remove Meta-owned WhatsApp and Threads from its App Store in China over Chinese national security concerns.TikTok, based in Singapore, has denied the Chinese government has any control over its app.China’s government officials remained mum Wednesday, referring reporters to a statement last month that called on the US to “stop the unreasonable suppression of foreign enterprises.”TikTok said it has “invested billions of dollars to keep US data safe and our platform free from outside influence and manipulation.”The company said it will challenge the law on First Amendmen...