Federal Judge Temporarily Blocks TikTok App Store Ban
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Judge gives temporary reprieve to TikTok, allows U.S. downloads to continueA federal judge granted a temporary reprieve Sunday to TikTok, the short-form video app that was facing a Trump administration-imposed midnight deadline that would have prevented users from downloading it.
The order from U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols of Washington, D.C., allows U.S. app stores to continue offering downloads. Nichols did not rule on a second, more comprehensive ban that would halt U.S. companies from working with TikTok.
In a statement, TikTok said that it was pleased with the ruling and that it "will continue defending our rights for the...
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TikTok: US judge halts app store banTikTok has avoided a government-ordered block on new downloads in the US after a judge issued a temporary injunction.
The video-sharing app had faced being removed from Apple's App Store and Android's Google Play marketplace at midnight local time in Washington DC.
Existing US-based users would have been able to have continued using it.
But they would not have been able to have re-downloaded the app if they had deleted it from their phones, nor have been offered software updates.
Judge Carl Nichols of the US...
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Federal Court Blocks TikTok Download BanA federal judge blocked the Trump administration’s order prohibiting TikTok downloads in the U.S. on Sunday, less than four hours before the ban was set to begin.
The ruling from the U.S. District Court in Washington D.C. will allow TikTok’s owner, Chinese technology firm ByteDance, extra time to receive approval from the U.S. and Chinese governments for a deal with Oracle and Walmart, though a November 12 complete ban of the app still looms if a deal cannot be approved.
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