A ban of TikTok on state devices and networks in Texas was challenged by First Amendment lawyers, who said that the law violated the Constitution by limiting research and teaching at public universities. The Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University filed the lawsuit on behalf of a group called the Coalition for Independent Technology Research, whose members include Texas college professors who say their work was compromised after they lost access to TikTok on campus Wi-Fi and university-issued computers.
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