US judge rejected WeChat ban in the US

A judge blocked the US administration’s attempt to ban China’s payment and messaging app WeChat.

Judge Laurel Beeler said the ban raises serious questions regarding the First Amendment to the constitution, which guarantees freedom of speech.

The Commerce Department announced the WeChat ban, so the application will not appear in the App Store stores from Sunday night. This is the equivalent of shutting down WeChat in the US market.

The Trump administration accused WeChat of threatening national security and said the app could hand over user data to the Chinese government.

Both Wechat and China strongly rejected it.

Tencent, the giant that owns WeChat, previously said the US ban was “regrettable.”

The ruling came after TikTok, an app also included in the US Department of Commerce ban, struck a partnership agreement with US companies Oracle and Walmart, hoping to continue. maintain TikTok activities in the US.

The Justice Department asked not to block the ban, after a group of WeChat users filed a lawsuit.

The Justice Department said blocking the ban “would disrupt and undermine the president’s determination to better deal with threats to national security.”

However, San Francisco Judge Beeler noted that “while there is general evidence that a China-related threat to national security is worth considering, there is specific evidence regarding WeChat. It is very humble.”

WeChat was born in 2011. It is a multifunctional application that allows users to send messages, make payments on mobile phones and use other local services.

WeChat describes itself as “one-size-fits-all” in China and has more than 1 billion monthly users.

Like all other Chinese social media platforms, WeChat has to censor content that the government deems illegal.

In March, according to a report, WeChat censored keywords related to the corona virus outbreak possibly on 1/1/2020.

However, WeChat says that the service uses encryption, which means that others cannot eavesdrop on your messages and stream text, audio, and video content. It is stored on the company’s servers and will be deleted once all the people sent have seen the content.