A United States federal judge postpones a Trump administration order which would have banned the popular video sharing app TikTok from US smartphone app stores.
TikTok is still scrambling to firm up a deal tentatively struck a week ago in which it would partner with Oracle, a huge database-software company, and Walmart in an effort to win the blessing of both the Chinese and American governments.ByteDance has also said any deal will need to be approved by China.
In arguments to Judge Nichols, TikTok lawyer John Hall said that TikTok was more than an app, since it functioned as a "modern day version of a town square". Justice Department lawyer Daniel Schwei said that Chinese companies were not purely private and were subject to intrusive laws compelling their cooperation with intelligence agencies.
The Justice Department has also argued that economic regulations of this nature generally were not subject to First Amendment scrutiny."It is a threat today. It is a risk today and therefore it deserves to be addressed today even while other things are ongoing and playing out."
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