Federal judge blocks Trump’s effort to ban TikTok from US app stores
A US District judge has made an 11th hour intervention to block a federal government order prohibiting downloads of TikTok from app stores by American users.
U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols issued a preliminary injunction, that would allow the popular app to still be on offer in Apple and Google stores, shortly before the ban was supposed to go into force on Sunday midnight. Earlier in the day, Nichols allowed a 90-minute hearing, where a lawyer representing TikTok made the case for it remaining available to users in the US.
#BREAKING: A federal court judge just granted TikTok's request for a temporary restraining order against a ban by the Trump administration. - .@axios pic.twitter.com/PEhmiBfxQI
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While the court sided with the TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, on the issue of US app stores, it stopped short of blocking looming Commerce Department restrictions that are set to come into force on November 12.
TikTok is facing an outright ban in the US right after the US presidential elections if its preliminary deal with retailer giant Walmart and software company Oracle to sell them a 20 percent stake in the app fails to receive a seal of approval from Beijing. Earlier this week, ByteDance announced that it applied for an export license in accordance with the Chinese government guidelines.
Earlier this month the US Commerce Department delayed the ban to give the companies an extra week to seal a deal.
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September 27, 2020 at 03:18PM
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