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TikTok has until November 12 to manage to stay in the United States

2020-09-28T20:35:50.887Z


The Washington court granted the social network that a withdrawal from mobile app download platforms would cause it "irreparable damage".


TikTok has 45 days to convince Donald Trump's government or the courts not to ban him from the United States, by reaching an agreement with American companies or by proving in court that such a ban would be illegal.

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Judge Carl Nichols, of a Washington court, granted Sunday to the social network owned by the Chinese group ByteDance, that a withdrawal of mobile app download platforms would cause it

"irreparable damage"

, according to his explanations published this Monday.

That was one of the arguments for TikTok, which has 100 million users in the United States and was gaining some 424,000 new users per day at the start of the summer.

"The nature of social networks means that users are unlikely to return to a platform they have abandoned,"

notes the judge.

The Ministry of Commerce had ordered this withdrawal from the "app stores" as a first step in the application of a presidential decree of August 6, where Donald Trump raised the risk of transfers of user data to China, describes TikTok as threat to

“national security”

and announces that it will be banned unless it comes under the American fold.

The next step is therefore the total ban on TikTok in the United States, which the short video network is also challenging in court.

But Carl Nichols refused to rule on this point, believing that the question deserved to be discussed further in new proceedings, before November 12, the fateful date set by the ministry.

“The ultimate goal of these bans is to protect national security by preventing China from accessing data and influencing content on TikTok,”

admits the judge.

But he adds, in agreement with TikTok, that the government bans can be seen as

"indirect regulations of 'personal communications' or 'information exchange'

.

"

However, this type of regulation is not included in the framework of the special economic powers (IEEPA) invoked by Donald Trump to ban TikTok.

"Spying"

But the social network is far from being off the hook.

According to the Commerce Ministry, quoted by the judge, the Chinese Communist Party

"is building massive databases with the personal data of Americans" in

order to help

"the Chinese government to deepen its intelligence gathering to better understand who to target in terms of espionage, digitally or via human resources ”

.

TikTok has been fighting for months to prove its foothold in the United States and has been negotiating with American companies.

The network last weekend confirmed an agreement to create a new company, TikTok Global, with Oracle as a technology partner in the United States and Walmart as a business partner.

But the finalization depends on the goodwill of the American president and the Chinese government.

Source: lefigaro

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