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MISSOULA, Mont. (Legal Newsline) - The State of Montana will appeal a federal judge's decision that stopped its ban on TikTok from going into effect.

Jeff Crouere says censorship and suppression of free expression is doing major damage to American society, and it has to stop.

 

TikTok has been getting back-to-back victories on the court after judges from Indiana and Montana favored the video app company, in separate legal battles.

MISSOULA, Mont. (Legal Newsline) - A federal judge has put a hold on enforcement of Montana's ban on TikTok.

TikTok announced earlier this year that it reached the milestone of 150 million monthly active users in the United States.

A pair of back-to-back court victories for TikTok this week have threatened to make it harder for the company’s critics to clamp down on it, after a state judge in Indiana threw out one lawsuit against the popular short-form video app and a federal judge blocked a first-of-its-kind Montana law from taking effect that would have banned the app statewide.

Ruling still leaves the door open for trial next year

A ban on TikTok's app in the state of Montana, enacted earlier this year, is now on hold. On Thursday, a U.S. federal judge in the state temporarily

A ban on TikTok's app in the state of Montana, enacted earlier this year, is now on hold. Montana Governor Greg Gianforte first signed into law the U.S.'s strictest restriction on the social video app in May of this year, saying the law would protect Montanans' personal and private data from the Chinese Communist Party. TikTok is operated by ByteDance, a Beijing-based operation, though now its U.S. user data is housed on Oracle servers in the U.S.