Post by account_disabled on Feb 20, 2024 5:06:00 GMT -5
A federal judge ordered this Sunday that the ban on downloading TikTok in the United States that was supposed to come into force at midnight is invalidated , a decision whose details remain sealed and on which it will be decided this Monday whether they will be made public. The decision comes from a complaint by TikTok against the order of the US Department of Justice , which ordered the ban. "We are delighted that the court accepted our legal arguments and issued this order against the TikTok download ban," the company said in a statement. Read more: The United States will ban TikTok and WeChat starting this Sunday "At the same time, we will maintain dialogue with the Government to turn our proposal, to which the president gave his preliminary approval last weekend, into an agreement ," the company added.
On Wednesday, TikTok filed a petition to stop the Justice Department's order that would ban downloads of the app in the United States from early Sunday morning to Monday. In their complaint, the company's lawyers argued that Trump's order is unconstitutional, violates the First Amendment (on freedom of expression) and the right to due process. During Sunday's Middle East Phone Number List hearing, they argued that the ban is "arbitrary and capricious" and that it should be paralyzed until the lawsuit filed by the company that created the app against the Trump Administration was decided, according to The Verge . TikTok's agreement with Oracle and Walmart, surrounded by confusion over who will have control of the app in the United States The agreement for the sale of TikTok's operations in the United States , which involves Oracle as a technology partner and Walmart , has been surrounded by confusion with different statements about who would have control of the application . Both China and the United States have assured that they could block the agreement .
Read more: ByteDance assures that it will maintain control of TikTok in the United States and will take the subsidiary public Although Trump originally said that the agreement had his "blessing ," he said on Fox News last Monday that he would not support it if Oracle and Walmart did not have "full control" over the application. The ban would not prevent users from using the app, but it would make new downloads impossible in the most popular app stores, such as the Apple App Store and Google Play. Likewise, TikTok could not release new updates. Trump's executive order plans to completely ban the application on November 12, the US Department of Commerce announced.