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The United States government has announced that it has postponed blocking TikTok. The Trump administration’s Department of Commerce said the enforcement ban, due to take effect on Thursday, Nov. 12, was postponed “pending further legal developments.”
The decision comes after the US Department of Justice said it had appealed a federal judge’s ruling on Sept. 27, who upheld TikTok’s request to temporarily suspend the ban on downloading the app in the United States. of the social network owned by the Chinese company ByteDance. According to the federal judge, blocking TikTok would have been inappropriate precisely at a time when the need for “free, open and accessible communications” in the United States was “at its peak”, that is, during the electoral campaign for the presidential elections. .
The Donald Trump administration has long argued that TikTok, one of the most popular social networks in the world, is a threat to the United States due to the close and opaque ties that the ByteDance company has with the Chinese government and the large number of data. collected by the app from its US users On August 14, Trump signed an executive order giving ByteDance 90 days to relinquish control of TikTok in the United States. Trump had already signed, just a week earlier, another executive order to force ByteDance to cease its activities in the United States, prohibiting all relationships with other American companies.
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Trump’s executive orders had forced ByteDance to consider deals with several US companies. On September 14 the Wall street journal had written that information technology company Oracle would become TikTok’s new technology partner for application operations in the United States after Microsoft announced the day before that TikTok had rejected its offer. Despite the rumors, no deal between TikTok and Oracle has yet been finalized.
On September 19, Oracle and Walmart, which are respectively a multinational cloud services company and the world’s largest supermarket chain, issued a statement saying that ByteDance had agreed to create a new company, TikTok Global, which would be based in the United States and would have managed the operations of the social network for users in the United States and for “the majority of users in the rest of the world.” Trump enthusiastically approved the deal and therefore postponed the lock on TikTok to give the parties more time to close the deal.
On September 21, however, ByteDance had written in a statement that some of the information circulated in the previous days about the deal was just rumors, and had questioned some elements of the deal that had been called by Trump an American success.
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