TikTok asks judge to block September 27th Trump ban
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge TikTok has requested an injunction against a looming ban on its app in the United States. The company - a US subsidiary of Chinese corporation ByteDance - claims a Trump administration executive order violates its right to due process and freedom of speech. It's asking a District of Columbia judge to block a rule that would require Apple and Google to remove the app from their stores on September 27th.
The request addresses an increasingly convoluted attempt to sever TikTok from ByteDance, ostensibly because the Chinese-owned app poses national security risks. President Donald Trump originally gave ByteDance a September 15th deadline to sell TikTok, then ordered app stores to ban it on September 20th. It was granted a last-minute...