TikTok Is Reportedly Planning To Challenge The Trump Administration Ban

TikTok is reportedly planning to challenge the Trump Administration ban

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by Alex Noah — 4 years ago in Business Ideas 2 min. read
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TikTok, the video-sharing app that’s moved to the center of the economic conflict between the US and China, is planning to challenge the executive order issued by President Donald Trump that would force the sale or ban the service in the United States.

According to a report by National Public Radio yesterday, TikTok might file a federal lawsuit challenging the arrangement when Tuesday. The suit is expected to be submitted at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California, in which TikTok has its American headquarters.

TikTok will challenge the constitutionality of the ban and its inherent claims the video sharing service signifies a national security threat to the nation, according to NPR’s report.

TikTok didn’t respond to a request for comment at the time of publication.

On Thursday, the President signed executive orders which place a 45-day deadline on American businesses to unwind their business connections with TikTok’s parent firm, Bytedance, also with WeChat, the messaging service owned by Chinse technology giant, Tencent.
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TikTok had laid out its resistance to the executive order when news broke that the President had signed it.

As TechCrunch reproted,” the business said the purchase was”issued with no due process” and could hazard”undermining global companies’ trust from the United States’ commitment to the principle of law” The mechanics the White House needs to use to prohibit the program comprise the International Emergency Economic Powers Act and the National Emergencies Act. But asserting the operations of a subsidiary of an international company on US land constitutes a federal crisis is extremely unprecedented.

Under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, which was passed through the Iran hostage crisis in 1976, that the President has sweeping authority to issue tariffs and exude economic connections along with different businesses.

Any obstacle to the executive arrangement needs to come shortly, since Bytedance, TikTok’s parent company is also considering the way to loosen its US operations

TFollowing a conversation between Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and President Donald J. Trump, Microsoft is prepared to continue discussions to explore a purchase of TikTok in the United States. Microsoft fully appreciates the importance of addressing the President’s concerns. It is committed to acquiring TikTok subject to a complete security review and providing proper economic benefits to the United States, including the United States Treasury

Investors and investors have stated that TikTok’s US company could be worth anywhere from $20 billion to $50 billion, because of the business’s consumer base of over 100 million clients in the united states, based on reports in Fortune.
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Along with other exemptions are looking to get TikTok’s US company too. In accordance with The Wall Street Journal, TikTok has also participated in preliminary talks with Twitter on a possible mix.

Alex Noah

Alex is senior editor of The Next Tech. He studied International Communication Management at the Hague University of Applied Sciences.

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