Public opinion in China over ByteDance’s legal challenge remains mixed, with many netizens saying the company ‘has no backbone’. Even if its lawsuit succeeds, ByteDance still has to deal with the other executive order about divesting TikTok’s US operations. — SCMP
TikTok owner ByteDance has received a mixed reaction in its home market for suing the United States government over an executive order that would ban its popular short video service in the world’s largest economy.
Beijing-based ByteDance on Aug 24 filed its lawsuit in federal court for the Central District of California against US President Donald Trump, the Department of Commerce and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross in the strongest opposition yet to the executive order on Aug 6, which singled out TikTok as a national security threat.
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