On Sunday, Carl Nichols, a District Judge, imposed a temporary injunction that would block a Trump administration order that would prohibit Google and Apple from offering TikTok on the app store.
The app store ban was set to go through at 11:59 p.m. on Sunday.
During a 90-minute hearing, John E. Hall, a lawyer for TikTok, argued that the Trump administration’s app store ban was “irrational.”
Hall said during the hearing:
“How does it make sense to impose this app store ban tonight when there are negotiations under way that might make it unnecessary?”
“This is just punitive. This is just a blunt way to whack the company. … There is simply no urgency here.”
U.S. authorities have repeatedly voiced national security worries due to fears that China’s government could acquire personal information from approximately 100 million Americans who use TikTok.
On Sept. 20, ByteDance announced that a deal had been formed between Oracle and Walmart to take stakes in a new company called TikTok Global that would look after U.S. based operations.
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