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In a few days, the TikTok video app should disappear from the American app stores. But for the second time in a month, a US court stopped him, another setback for US President Trump.
The US government has suffered another setback in court in its crackdown on the video app TikTok. A Pennsylvania state judge suspended an order from the Commerce Department, which would have meant the complete end of TikTok in the US by November 12. She issued a court order at the request of three TikTok video writers who make a living on the platform.
A Washington judge had previously suspended the TikTok app’s download stop, which was scheduled for late September, with a court order. The United States government appealed against him. With the download stop, TikTok should disappear from the US Apple and Google app stores.
Trump: TikTok is a “security risk”
TikTok belongs to the Chinese company Bytedance. US President Donald Trump describes the app as a security risk because Chinese authorities could use it to obtain data from US citizens. He wants to at least force the American TikTok business under the control of American owners.
The situation around TikTok remains generally unclear. Trump had already announced that he had approved a fundamental agreement that would ensure the continuity of TikTok in the US through the entry of US companies Oracle and Walmart. But since then there have been conflicting statements about whether the new US partner or Bytedance should have the majority in the global TikTok business, and the conclusion of a final deal is still delayed.
Court: Lack of legal basis on the part of the US government.
The three TikTok authors each have more than a million followers on the platform. In their request for a precautionary measure, they argued, among other things, that the Ministry of Commerce did not have a sufficient legal basis for its action against the application. The Washington judge also thought this was likely, so he suspended the unload stop. With the measures planned for November 12, Bytedance will be banned from maintaining US user data and TikTok’s operational infrastructure.
