TikTok appeals in court against Donald Trump's executive order that threatens to ban its use in the United States
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One more chapter in the power struggle between TikTok and Donald Trump has been written: this Monday the company owned by Bytedance has sued the current US administration for an executive order requesting to prohibit the operations of the microvideo application in that country. Thus, TikTok is appealing this executive order from Donald Trump in court, alleging that the president “is not based on genuine national security concerns . ”
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TikTok appeals Donald Trump's executive order in court
Now that TikTok is appealing in court, the social network ass Email Data ures through a statement on its official blog that “ The executive order issued by the administration on August 6, has the potential to strip our community of rights without any evidence.” that justifies such an extreme action without due process.”
According to Donald Trump, TikTok poses a threat to the national security of the United States, and in his executive order, Trump prohibited doing any business with its parent company, Bytedance, in the country, essentially forcing the sale of the application. to a US company within a period until next November, unless there is a threat of a blockade.
These actions are, according to TikTok, a desperate measure since “ with this executive order that threatens to ban our operations in the United States, the creation of 10,000 jobs in the United States is eliminated and irreparably harms millions of Americans who resort to this application to have fun and take advantage of a particularly vital medium during the pandemic. “We just don’t have a choice.”
So far, the microvideo app has been downloaded around 175 million times in the United States alone , while more than a billion times it has been installed on mobile phones around the world. However, the US president has repeatedly accused months to the application for diverting data from users in this country for the benefit of the Chinese government.
“We believe that the administration ignored our extensive efforts to address their concerns, which we carried out fully and in good faith, even when we did not agree with the concerns themselves ,” the platform assured.
Microsoft and Oracle: the two companies that could buy control of TikTok in the United States
Despite this fight, for now Microsoft is the main interested party in acquiring TikTok's US operations, while a new company has emerged interested in acquiring it: Oracle, which joined a group of investment firms to offer an offer .
According to CNBC : “ Oracle's talks to acquire TikTok's operations in four countries are ongoing, and have accelerated in recent days, and both Oracle and Microsoft are well ahead of any other company that has shown interest. ” .
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These four countries in which Oracle would maintain the operation of TikTok would be the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, however, this division would lead to having several operating versions of the application, and while Bytedance continues to defend the right to possess its application , some reports suggest that TikTok could be valued at around $30 million, a sum that not everyone could afford.