TikTok ban: The Trump administration is appealing restrictions on blocking the court order

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The U.S. government on Monday appealed a ruling by a federal judge earlier this month that prevented authorities from fully enforcing its restrictions against the popular short-form video app.

The appeal challenges a December 7 preliminary order from U.S. District Court Judge Carl Nichols that prevented the U.S. Department of Commerce from enforcing rules that would have made it illegal for infrastructure companies. carry TikTok network traffic.

The US government will not extend the deadline for an agreement on TikTok, but negotiations continue

This ruling followed a previous court order that prevented the Commerce Department from banning TikTok downloads in U.S. app stores.

TikTok did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The company has been going through the Trump administration for months. U.S. President Donald Trump has accused TikTok of posing a risk to national security because its Chinese owner, ByteDance, could be forced to hand over data from TikTok users to the Chinese government. TikTok has denied the claim and said TikTok stores US user data in Virginia and Singapore of the scope of Chinese legislation.

TikTok has been negotiating an agreement with the U.S. government to address its concerns about U.S. investors, such as Oracle (ORCL) i Walmart (WMT). But this agreement has not been finalized.
Earlier this month, the U.S. government declined to extend the deadline it had set for ByteDance to sell the app. But he also decided not to enforce an executive order requiring the sale.

This allowed negotiations between TikTok and US officials to continue. But it is unclear whether concerns about the application will be resolved before President-elect Joe Biden takes office next month.

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