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TikTok sues U.S. government, saying potential ban violates First Amendment (www.nbcnews.com)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

It looks like they do, yes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wong_Wing_v._United_States

The fact that they bothered to pass a law at all could be argued to be a tacit admission that tiktok has constitutional rights, if it doesn't then you could just march in and confiscate it's servers, since it wouldn't have the right to due process.