TikTok introduced this Monday lawsuit in a Montana court, The United States, against a law passed last week that bans the use of the app in the state, is the first to use this type of veto.

Popular social networking site owned by Chinese company ByteDance said in documents filed in federal court in Montana that the ban This is “unprecedented” and “unconstitutional.”

“We are filing a lawsuit against the unconstitutional ban on TikTok in Montana to protect both our business and hundreds of users,” wrote the company in your account Twitter.

In the lawsuit, lawyers representing the social network, which has more than 150 million U.S. users, emphasize that state law violates the First Amendment of the country’s Constitution, who defends free speech and interferes in federal affairs.

Montana Republicans, who control both houses of the state Congress and the governor’s office, are the main proponents of this measure and They accuse Tiktok of collecting data from their users with the intention of handing them over to the Chinese Communist Party.

In its lawsuit, TikTok defended itself against these allegations, which it called “unreasonable assumption” and claims that “it has not and will not share user data with the Chinese government.”