aum Posted August 23, 2020 Share Posted August 23, 2020 Video app TikTok said Saturday it will challenge in court a Trump administration crackdown on the popular Chinese-owned platform, which Washington accuses of being a national security threat. As tensions soar between the world's two biggest economies, President Donald Trump signed an executive order on August 6 giving Americans 45 days to stop doing business with TikTok's Chinese parent company ByteDance—effectively setting a deadline for a potential pressured sale of the app to a US company. "To ensure that the rule of law is not discarded and that our company and users are treated fairly, we have no choice but to challenge the executive order through the judicial system," TikTok said in a statement. "Even though we strongly disagree with the administration's concerns, for nearly a year we have sought to engage in good faith to provide a constructive solution," it said. "What we encountered instead was a lack of due process as the administration paid no attention to facts and tried to insert itself into negotiations between private businesses." ByteDance said in a separate statement that the suit would be filed on Monday, US time. TikTok's kaleidoscopic feeds of short clips feature everything from dance routines and hair-dye tutorials to jokes about daily life and politics. It has been downloaded 175 million times in the US and more than a billion times around the world. Trump claims TikTok could be used by China to track the locations of federal employees, build dossiers on people for blackmail, and conduct corporate espionage. The company has said it has never provided any US user data to the Chinese government, and Beijing has blasted Trump's crackdown as political. The US measures come ahead of November 3 elections in which Trump, behind his rival Joe Biden in the polls, is campaigning hard on an increasingly strident anti-Beijing message. Trump and China Trump has increasingly taken a confrontational stance on China, challenging it on trade, military and economic fronts. Shortly after Trump announced his moves against TikTok this month, the United States slapped sanctions on Hong Kong's leader over the Chinese security clampdown after last year's pro-democracy demonstrations. Microsoft and Oracle are possible suitors for TikTok's US operations. Reports have said Oracle—whose chairman Larry Ellison has raised millions in campaign funds for Trump—was weighing a bid for TikTok's operations in the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. The Trump administration has also given ByteDance a 90-day deadline to divest in TikTok before the app is banned in the United States. The measures move away from the long-promoted American ideal of a global, open internet and could invite other countries to follow suit, analysts told AFP previously. "It's really an attempt to fragment the internet and the global information society along US and Chinese lines, and shut China out of the information economy," Milton Mueller, a Georgia Tech professor and founder of the Internet Governance Project said previously. Source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mp68terr Posted August 23, 2020 Share Posted August 23, 2020 Quote Trump claims TikTok could be used by China to track the locations of federal employees, build dossiers on people for blackmail, and conduct corporate espionage. Claims... could be used... What about proofs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aum Posted August 23, 2020 Author Share Posted August 23, 2020 Why not ask the claimant, eh? 😉 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mp68terr Posted August 23, 2020 Share Posted August 23, 2020 Or the one who wrote the article, she should have more info than simple readers 😉 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aum Posted August 23, 2020 Author Share Posted August 23, 2020 News: that's how it is. The reporter reported. The poster posted. No questions of anyone, eh. Cheers, mate. None can ask Mr. T.... for proof of anything. This so far is how it is. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mp68terr Posted August 23, 2020 Share Posted August 23, 2020 41 minutes ago, aum said: Cheers, mate. None can ask Mr. T.... for proof of anything. This so far is how it is. Thanks! Sounds like the way it is Anyway thanks for keeping us informed of what is going on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TownVirtuoso Posted August 25, 2020 Share Posted August 25, 2020 Source: https://cybernews.com/editorial/tiktok-is-suing-the-us-government/ TikTok launched legal action against the Trump administration over the executive order banning the social media platform this autumn unless it is sold to a non-Chinese entity. “Today we are filing a complaint in federal court challenging the Administration’s efforts to ban TikTok in the US. As a company we have always focused on transparency, so we want to explain why we are taking this step,” the company said in a press release. TikTok said it has no choice but to sue the Trump administration and to “take action to protect our rights and the rights of our community and employees.” On August 6, US President Donald Trump signed an executive order barring US companies from doing business with TikTok’s parent company ByteDance after September 20 unless TikTok is sold to a non-Chinese company. “The Executive Order issued by the Administration on August 6, 2020 has the potential to strip the rights of that community without any evidence to justify such an extreme action, and without any due process. We strongly disagree with the Administration’s position that TikTok is a national security threat and we have articulated these objections previously,” the company said. The White House insists that the Chinese company is a threat to national security. The lawsuit comes as no surprise as TikTok said it was considering taking legal action after Donald Trump signed his first executive order. “We will pursue all remedies available to us in order to ensure that the rule of law is not discarded and that our company and our users are treated fairly – if not by the Administration, then by the US courts,” the company said in a statement less than a month ago. It insists that the recent executive order was issued without any due process and that the Trump administration paid no attention to facts. “We have made clear that TikTok has never shared user data with the Chinese government, nor censored content at its request. In fact, we make our moderation guidelines and algorithm source code available in our Transparency Center, which is a level of accountability no peer company has committed to,” the company said. Microsoft announced it is prepared to complete the discussions with ByteDance no later than September 15, 2020. Twitter and Oracle are also in talks with ByteDance about the TikTok acquisition. According to the Wall Street Journal, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg actively lobbied for a TikTok ban in private meetings with members of the US Congress. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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