US Judge blocks TikTok ban, asks the US to defend the decision
The Commerce Department of the United States issued an executive order to Apple and Google to ban WeChat and TikTok from their app stores, but now US District Judge Carl Nichols blocked the decision.
The judge said the government ”must file a response to a request by TikTok for a preliminary injunction or delay the order by 2:30 pm EDT Friday.”
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A similar situation is happening in California, with a federal judge issuing a preliminary injunction blocking the ban of WeChat - another platform, owned by a Chinese conglomerate Tencent. According to TikTok, the restrictions “are not motivated by a genuine national security concern” but are rather being used as a bargaining chip in the upcoming general elections.
Last Saturday saw a different sort of delay to the ban after “positive developments” - Walmart and Oracle reportedly will join hands in purchasing a minor stake in TikTok Global - a new subsidiary by ByteDance that is supposedly going to make TikTok a platform for influencers and brands to promote products while doing their silly dances.
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- Sin
- 19 Jul 2023
- HCj
I think it's important understand not everyone going agree with a ban if a ban happens Although I do think platform like tiktok do make security problems so it's something keep in mind out right ban of a platform I think is wrong and ...
- Poh
- 29 Sep 2020
- X$a
Isn't there still many alternative video sharing apps, and messaging apps? If they ban or block all other countries but their own native app. Then that would be no freedom of speech! I don't use video sharing app, so i don't know alter...
- Poh
- 29 Sep 2020
- X$a
I thought it was, server must be in country, server must allow full access to government, product must be under country censorship. Minus the censorship part. If a country has full access to the server, and the server is physical based in that countr...
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