A few weeks before a possible ban of the video platform TikTok from the app stores of major American companies, US President-elect Donald Trump asked the US Supreme Court on Friday to suspend the law that requires TikTok’s Chinese parent company ByteDance to sell the service.
“Given the novelty and difficulty of this case, the Court should consider suspending the statutory deadline,” Trump’s lawyers wrote.
User spied on?
This would give more time to clarify these questions and give Trump the opportunity to find a political solution. The background is a law passed by the administration of outgoing US President Joe Biden that gives ByteDance until January 19 to sell TikTok in the US. Otherwise, the video platform must be banned from the app stores of the American companies Apple and Google.
The reason for this is that US authorities claim that ByteDance is abusing the app in the service of the Chinese leadership to spy on users, which the video platform denies. TikTok is especially popular among young people and has approximately 170 million users in the US.
Trump wants to find a political solution
Trump himself, who had pursued similar crackdowns on TikTok during his first term, recently changed course. There must be competition, he recently told the Bloomberg news agency.
In the letter filed Friday, Trump’s attorney John Sauer explains that the former and future head of state does not comment on the legal aspects of the case. Instead, he is “kindly” asking that the deadline be suspended so that Trump has a chance to find a political solution after he takes power on January 20.
Source: Krone
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