The situation remains unclear: judge stops US-plans for Out of Tiktok in November

The situation remains unclear
Judge stops U.S. plans for Out of Tiktok in November

The U.S. government has suffered in its action against the Video-App Tiktok another setback in court.

A judge in the state of Pennsylvania suspended on Friday an order from the Ministry of Commerce, the the complete From for Tiktok in the US, for 12. November would mean. They issued an injunction, at the request of three authors of Tiktok-Videos that earn their living on the platform.

Previously, a judge in Washington suspended for the end of September, the scheduled Download stop for the Tiktok App, also with a restraining order. The US government lodged an appeal against it. By the Download stop Tiktok should disappear from the us App Stores of Apple and Google.

Tiktok is part of the Chinese group byte dance. US President, Donald Trump referred to the App as a security risk, because the Chinese authorities could come about you to data of U.S. citizens. He wants to force that, at least in the US business from Tiktok comes under the control of American owners. The government in China, torpedoed talks on a sale with a new rule, the Export of Software Algorithms prohibits without special permission.

The location on the Tiktok as a whole remains unclear. Trump had already announced that he had approved a fundamental Deal that would secure the continued existence of Tiktok in the United States by the entry of the American companies Oracle and Walmart. However, since there was conflicting information as to whether the new US Partner or byte dance the majority of the global Tiktok-to keep business – and the conclusion of a final agreement is delayed further and further.

The three “Tiktoker” each have more than a Million Followers on the platform. They argued in their motion for a preliminary injunction, inter alia, that the trade Ministry had no sufficient legal basis for its action against the App. This was also the judge in Washington for probably, which is why he suspended the Download stop. With the to 12. November planned measures is to be prohibited byte dance, among other things, to keep data from US users, as well as to operate infrastructure for Tiktok.