A United States appeals court refused this Friday to paralyze the entry into force of a federal law that forces TikTok to separate itself from its parent company, the Chinese ByteDance, or be banned in the United States at the end of next January.
TikTok and ByteDance requested a temporary pause last Monday after three judges of that court came out in favor of the law, which was approved by Congress in April and which forces TikTok to disassociate itself from ByteDance or be banned in the country on January 19.
The companies had requested that precautionary measure to buy time while they prepared an appeal to the Supreme Court to review the case, and they are expected to present it soon before the highest judicial instance in the countrysince time is of the essence.
The Washington Court of Appeals rejected the request, arguing that Congress made a “deliberate choice” in setting its deadline for the sale or veto of TikTok, subject to a single extensionaccording to the decision document issued this Friday.
The Department of Justice had asked the court to reject TikTok’s request citing the “key national security interests underlying the law”.
The deadline has a strong symbolic loadwell he is the Joe Biden’s last day as president, since the next day, January 20, the president-elect, Donald Trump, will be inaugurated.
This has been one of the arguments of the social network in its writing, which considers that the paralysis of the law is “especially appropriate” because, as they say, it will give the incoming Administration time “to determine its position.”
The Biden Executive and congressmen from the Democratic and Republican parties approved the norm moved by the fear that The Chinese Government can obtain information about users in the United States from ByteDance and use their influence over American public opinion by manipulating what people see on the app.
trumpfor its part, that tried to ban the platform during his first term (2017-2021), said, during the election campaign, that if he were the winner of the elections he would “save TikTok in the United States.” However, has not been pronounced on the case since he was proclaimed winner of the presidential elections last November.
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