There have been a lot of discussions regarding Tik Tok in the States. Lawyers for TikTok requested with a US federal judge on Sunday to hold the Trump Administration’s ban of the mass video-sharing program from app stores set to take effect at the end of the day, debating that the move would encroach on First Amendment rights and do irreversible harm to the business. The 90-minute hearing came after President Donald Trump announced this summer that TikTok was a threat to national security and that it either sold its US operations to US companies or the app would be banned from the country.
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TikTok, owned by Chinese company ByteDance, is struggling to firm up a deal temporarily struck a week ago in which it would collaborate with tech company Oracle and retailer Walmart and that would get the benefit of the Chinese and American governments. In the meantime, it is striving to keep the app accessible in the US.
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The ban on new downloads of TikTok, which has about 100 million users in the U.S, was suspended once by the government. A more widespread ban is scheduled for November, about a week after the presidential election. Judge Carl Nichols of the US District Court for the District of Columbia said he would make a decision by late Sunday, leaving TikTok’s fate hanging. In arguments to Judge Nichols, TikTok lawyer John Hall said that TikTok is more than an app but rather is a “modern-day version of a town square.”
