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Kelly Armstrong: “ByteDance is suing on the First Amendment, which we avail…”

Featuring: Kelly Armstrong, Republican | Governor of North Dakota

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An Interview With ND Governor Kelly Armstrong

Published | Video Starts at 06:39

There's a reason Chinese kids aren't on TikTok. ByteDance is owned by the Chinese. By. You cannot be that successful in China without having direct relationships to the Chinese Communist Party, that is. Well, ByteDance is suing on the First Amendment, which we avail our court system to foreign governments all the time. But that's not. It's not a First amendment issue. It's a national security issue. My position on ByteDance is sell TikTok and TikTok can exist. (06:39–06:48)

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Asserts that ByteDance is using the First Amendment in a lawsuit and that the U.S. court system is accessible to foreign governments.

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