TikTok ban of Nov. 12 is lifted after federal judge’s ruling – IT Pro – News

The scheduled shutdown of TikTok on November 12 in the US is canceled. Three users argued that their works are informative and therefore protected, in which a federal judge agreed. There is currently no next date for the TikTok ban.

The works on TikTok are according to users and the courts protected under the ‘freedom of expression’ clause of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. Which writes The Verge. On November 12, the US Department of Commerce would release restrictions on web hosting, among other things content delivery in effect, so that the app would no longer work in practice.

With the decision of this judge, that is now over. The election of Joe Biden as president of the US may end the conflict with TikTok, but the next inauguration is scheduled for January 20. A new attempt by the current government can therefore still take place in the meantime.

President Trump signed up in August a decree that there is “credible evidence” that China’s TikTok parent company ByteDance “may take action that threatens to harm the national security of the United States.” The president then gave ByteDance a sales deadline of 90 days after publication of that decree. This gives the Chinese company until November 12 to divest its American TikTok division.

The deal in which Oracle and Walmart will both become owners of TikTok’s US division has not yet been approved by the Chinese authorities, so concerns of the White House have not been allayed.

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