A Monday ruling from a Texas federal district court upheld the statewide ban of TikTok on all government agency devices. The plaintiff argued that the ban was disruptive to research and education across public universities.
A release from the Knight First Amendment Institute, an organization that advocates for freedom of speech and the press through litigation, research and education, which carried out the legal challenge, stated that the ban is disrupting research efforts and forcing public university faculty to suspend projects, limiting their engagement with research produced by other scholars. (The institute carried out the challenge on behalf of the Coalition for Independent Technology Research, a group that aims to sustain the right to study the impact of technology on society.)
