Judge Temporarily Blocks US Ban of TikTok App Downloads

Judge Temporarily Blocks US Ban of TikTok App Downloads
A woman walks past a building belonging to ByteDance, the parent company of video sharing app TikTok, in Beijing on Sept. 16, 2020. Greg Baker/AFP via Getty Images
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A federal judge on Sept. 27 temporarily halted President Donald Trump’s executive order that would have banned app stores from carrying popular short-video app TikTok beginning at 11:59pm on Sept. 27.

U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols in Washington issued a preliminary injunction late Sept. 27, but declined to postpone a more comprehensive ban to the app set for Nov. 12.

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