Posted on 08/24/2020 9:12:16 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
TikTok says it is filing suit against the Trump administration Monday in response to what it says is a "highly politicized" executive order that seeks to ban the short-form video app from the United States.
The suit will mark a major escalation in the fight between President Donald Trump and the wildly popular TikTok, which has been downloaded more than 165 million times in the US and is owned by a Chinese parent company, ByteDance.
TikTok said it is arguing in California federal court that the administration did not give the company a fair chance to defend itself from allegations that it poses a national security risk. And it will claim that Trump's executive order illegally rests on emergency powers law in ways that do not apply to TikTok.
"We far prefer constructive dialogue over litigation," TikTok said in a blog post announcing the case. "But with the Executive Order threatening to bring a ban on our US operations — eliminating the creation of 10,000 American jobs and irreparably harming the millions of Americans who turn to this app for entertainment, connection, and legitimate livelihoods that are vital especially during the pandemic — we simply have no choice."
TikTok's legal challenge reflects a high-stakes, last-ditch effort to prevent a looming ban by the Trump administration, which gave the company until Sept. 20 to address concerns that the app could "allow the Chinese Communist Party access to Americans' personal and proprietary information — potentially allowing China to track the locations of Federal employees and contractors, build dossiers of personal information for blackmail, and conduct corporate espionage."
Since then, TikTok has explored selling its US business to Microsoft, and reportedly to Oracle as well. But with the suit, TikTok is going on the offensive
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Courts typically defer to the government on issues of NatSec, but it’s California, so anything can happen.................
To no one’s surprise
And their brief will be a 20-second video. They’re asking the same for amicus briefs too.
Go ahead..
And Trump will disclose how the Chinese Army Specialists used fake ID’s to work in the Houston Chinese Embassy for Huawei and Tik Tok to data mine for Antifa and BLM to send videos promoting and training to riot in 25 US cities .
That would be giving away too many sources and methods, but I’m sure Trump has a plan. He would have anticipated this move when he first made the decision.
What we have here is a communist country (China) suing a capitalist country (USA) for the right to spy and steal from the capitalist country.
I am surprised they didn’t go to the UN or world court to file their complaint.
They figure they have a better chance in California with a rat judge.
Will Kellyanne Conway’s whiny teen be filing an Amicus brief?
Engaged in front end anti-government, pro- AntiFa activities, creating and furthering riots and chaos ,
and back end sending of personal information back to China so as to organize those who could be recruited for riots and chaos , via Tik Tok.
This will open the way for further investigation into the Communist government control of Huawei organization
and how the back end software ships information back to China.
So what can be done about Tik Tok’s spying for the commies in China? Or is spying legal now, since Obama and all his cronies got away with it?
Banning TikTok could be a disaster. What would the super-selfie generation do without it.
Does anyone think these stings over the last several months for the transmission of child pornography involved fax machines?
RE: What would the super-selfie generation do without it.
They learn to live like the generations before them (including mine ). :)
Go ahead CCP
Yeah, it's call discovery, and tik tok just opened the door on themselves.
Ban them, sounds like a horrible app. Ban all Chinese tech.
Ya, poor us.. We had to go to the Woolworth's then put a quarter into the slot to get 6 blurry black and white photos. Mostly with us making silly faces.
No Standing within the USA.
Unless the Supreme Court invents another fake law
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