A federal judge has blocked President Donald Trump's attempts to
ban TikTok, the latest legal defeat for the administration as it tries to wrest
the popular app from its Chinese owners
A federal judge
has blocked President Donald
Trump's attempts to ban TikTok, the latest legal defeat for the
administration as it tries to wrest the popular app from its Chinese owners.
The Trump administration had tried to ban the short-form video app from
smartphone app stores in the U.S. and cut it off from vital technical services.
TikTok sued, arguing such actions would violate free speech and due process
rights.
Judge Carl Nichols
of the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., said in a ruling Monday that
the Commerce Department likely overstepped" its use of presidential
emergency powers and acted in an arbitrary and capricious manner by failing to
consider obvious alternatives."
Nichols is the
second federal judge to fully block the Trump administration's economic
sanctions against the app as the court cases proceed.
The Trump
administration has alleged that TikTok
is a security threat because the Chinese government could spy on app users'
personal data.
TikTok has denied
it's a security threat but said it's still trying to work with the
administration to resolve its concerns.
Trump in September
gave his tentative blessing to a proposal by ByteDance, the Chinese company
that owns TikTok, meant to resolve U.S. national security concerns by having
the U.S. companies Oracle and Walmart invest in TikTok.
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