:strip_icc()/s04.video.glbimg.com/x720/8868259.jpg)
[ad_1]
The popular TikTok video sharing app asked an American judge to stop the Trump administration from banning the Chinese social network according to court documents filed on Friday night (18).
- China accuses US of acts of ‘intimidation’ over measures against Tiktok and WeChat
- The factors that led Trump to announce the blocking of TikTok and WeChat in the US
TikTok and its parent company, ByteDance, filed a complaint in federal court in Washington challenging the recent prohibitive measures of the Trump administration.
The US Department of Commerce announced Friday that it will ban people in the country from downloading the messaging apps WeChat and TikTok starting on September 20.
A The ban is introduced for political reasons, TikTok and ByteDance claimed in the complaint. TikTok also said that the ban violates the company’s rights.
US President Donald Trump, who is involved in a long-standing trade dispute with China, issued an executive order on Aug. 6 that bans US transactions with Chinese owners of WeChat and TikTok messaging apps.
Both ByteDance and TikTok are seeking a “declaratory” sentence and order “preliminarily and permanently invalidating and prohibiting the Bans and the August 6 order,” according to the complaint.
The White House did not immediately respond when contacted by Reuters for comment on Saturday morning.
TikTok, which has more than 100 million users in the United States, said the ban would “irreversibly destroy the American business of TikTok.”
