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MOSCOW: A US federal judge blocked the Trump administration’s ban on downloads from TikTok, a video-sharing app owned by Chinese company ByteDance.
According to the Sputnik news agency, citing the Wall Street Journal report on Sunday, the ban was supposed to go into effect Sunday night, but Judge Carl Nichols of the US District Court in Washington, DC, granted a preliminary injunction requested by ByteDance to allow TikTok to remain available for download in the US.
The White House had said that US downloads of the app on Android’s Apple Playstore and Google Play would be restricted as of Sunday and that all US TikTok operations would be banned on November 12 unless the company relented. its capital and local control technology to a US company. .
According to The Wall Street Journal, Judge Carl Nichols on Sunday denied TikTok’s request to lift the November 12 ban.
Trump’s ban on TikTok was initially set for September 20, but was postponed until November 12 as the administration offered the company an exit upon being acquired by a US entity. The US president said software firm Oracle and retail giant Walmart were in final talks to control TikTok’s capital and technology. However, ByteDance has insisted on maintaining an 80 percent stake in the restructured US version of TikTok.
Trump has repeatedly threatened to ban the TikTok app in the United States, citing broader concerns about alleged spying by the Chinese government on American user data.Called
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