Post by jinathjemi22222 on Feb 24, 2024 23:59:10 GMT -5
The microvideo app TikTok, owned by the Chinese company ByteDance , has sued this Monday the Government of US President Donald Trump , for enacting a law that prohibits any transaction or business with the company in the United States (United States). In its lawsuit, the fashionable social network has alleged that Trump's executive order, signed in early August and packaged in a broader package of blockades of China , "is not based on genuine national security concerns," it said. the company itself . The operation represents the last chapter of a trade war that has lasted for nearly two and a half years . "The order issued by the Administration on August 6, 2020 has the potential to strip our community of rights without any evidence to justify such an extreme action and without due process," said TikTok, which had been threatening legal action for some time. to undertake against the US Government .
The Trump Administration, for its part, maintains that TikTok poses a "threat" to the national security of the United States , which is why it prevented its transactions as of next September 15, and is seeking to force its sale to an American company such as Microsoft. , who has shown interest in the popular social network . Read more: This measure by Trump could create internet censorship C Level Contact List in the US like the one its geopolitical rival, China, already has: this is how the recently announced 'Clean Network' works In its executive order, as well as in announcements from the Secretary of State , the US Government has gone so far as to ensure that TikTok creates "real risks" for the United States, which must above all "protect privacy and sensitive information from evil actors.
like the Chinese Communist Party" , which it assumes behind its parent company, ByteDance. The movement has a double purpose, since it forces the company to sell TikTok to another firm in the sector that can buy it —coincidentally, an American one like Microsoft. Trump, along with other lawmakers , has expressed concern that TikTok and ByteDance allowed the Chinese government to use the platform to spy on Americans, posing a risk to US national security . The company has repeatedly denied these allegations. Read more: Trump's veto of TikTok and WeChat has precedent: Apple and Google have accepted requests from other countries to ban hundreds of apps in the last 2 years It all started with Trump's first executive order against TikTok , protected by the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, which allowed the president to regulate economic transactions under the framework of a national emergency , precisely the same one that the social network now wants to refute.