Posted on 09/20/2020 7:25:47 PM PDT by Magnatron
U.S. Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler blocked an order by the Trump administration on Sunday that would have banned Chinese-owned messaging application WeChat from the Google and Apple app stores. Judge Beeler said that the order presents First Amendment concerns for users of the platform.
According to a report by CNBC, a California judge blocked an order by the Trump administration that would have effectively blocked the WeChat messaging application from popular mobile app stores. Some analysts feared that the China-based applications posed information security concerns for American users.
The group of plaintiffs that filed a lawsuit believe that the order would infringe upon their First Amendment rights. In her injunction order, U.S. Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler argued that the plaintiffs have sufficiently established the necessary elements to establish their claim.
“In the attached order, the court grants the plaintiffs’ motion for a preliminary injunction on the ground that the plaintiffs have shown serious questions going to the merits of the First Amendment claim, the balance of hardships tips in the plaintiffs’ favor, and the plaintiffs establish sufficiently the other elements for preliminary-injunctive relief,” Judge Beeler wrote in the order.
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Nope. I would need a lot more evidence other than a president’s say-so before I’d acquiesce to this sort of restriction. I’d need to be convinced that an app, a newspaper, etc. was posing a direct imminent threat to national sovereignty or security - not just some general imposition on public economy or privacy. We may agree to disagree, but no, I do not believe I’ve been duped.
The purpose of this is to give Apple and Google cover to ignore Trump’s order to take the app out of their app store.
And the Chinese spying gets the same Free Speech consideration.
Do these judges have a BRAIN???
It's from the first paragraph of the Authority section.
...there’s a lot of legal wriggle room.
I think the magistrate judge has whatever powers the circuit court delegates.
These petitioners are clearly sophisticated and I can't believe they would make their plea to a court that couldn't provide relief.
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