Hope you are aware of the TikTok controversy in the US which starts at the beginning of August when President Donald Trump issued an executive order to prevent all the transactions with the application along with WeChat considering national security threat. In reply, TikTok sued the government for the first time in federal court in California aiming to block the order.
TikTok, on this Friday night, again challenged the Trump administration in the court for the second time. As per the filing, Trump exceeded his authority and doing this political reasons, not to prevent “unusual and extraordinary threat”. Apart from that, the ban also violates its First Amendment free-speech rights.
The complaint described further, President’s action will “destroy an online community where millions of Americans have come together to express themselves,” TikTok alleged that the US Government ignored all the evidence that holds the company’s commitment to privacy and security for its users.
As per TikTok’s word Trump is proceeding with his campaign against China betting that it will help him to win the November’s election, though millions of TikTok users will be upset due to this.
On this Friday, the Secretary of State Michael Pompeo also requested US companies kick off the short video making app along with the messaging app WeChat from their app stores on 20th September as a part of their “Clean Network” guideline. This guideline is designed to prevent China to get personal data from US citizens.
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