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Tony Tan, a Silicon Valley software engineer and Google shareholder, has filed a lawsuit against Google’s parent company, Alphabet, in Delaware state court. Tan is suing over the company’s decision to continue hosting TikTok on its app store despite a federal ban. This lawsuit follows Tan’s previous legal action against the US Department of Justice for not enforcing the TikTok ban. The legal battle stems from concerns about TikTok’s ties to ByteDance, a Chinese company, and its implications for US national security. The ban was initially set by former President Donald Trump, who paused its enforcement to allow ByteDance to negotiate its US operations.