{"id":28323,"date":"2020-09-28T17:28:26","date_gmt":"2020-09-29T00:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=28323"},"modified":"2020-09-28T17:28:26","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T00:28:26","slug":"judge-temporarily-blocks-tiktok-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=28323","title":{"rendered":"Judge temporarily blocks TikTok ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge on Sunday temporarily blocked\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/uyqmvzybchhsjzjhsgnccsmmcyskhyhddfcbzpkhyyqhwg_lhnmjjgkgrmnzmggnqgm.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/uyqmvzybchhsjzjhsgnccsmmcyskhyhddfcbzpkhyyqhwg_lhnmjjgkgrmnzmggnqgm.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1601423312387000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGbugsPXqJXZMkCGb1liXIoKJt9sg\">President Trump<\/a>&#8216;s TikTok ban just hours before it was set to go into effect,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/oftmscfgqttdpcptdkwqqdmmqfdntftvvlqgcrntffztjw_lhnmjjgkgrmnzmggnqgm.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/oftmscfgqttdpcptdkwqqdmmqfdntftvvlqgcrntffztjw_lhnmjjgkgrmnzmggnqgm.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1601423312387000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGQvhUQ5c_qm45RA0ZBrlmMB4JM6A\">NPR reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Carl Nichols, of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, halted the ban after TikTok&#8217;s attorneys argued that Trump&#8217;s ban infringes on rights to free speech and due process. Information about his opinion was not immediately available.<\/p>\n<p>Attorneys for the company called the popular video app a &#8220;modern day version of the town square&#8221; in a telephonic hearing Sunday, according to the news outlet. The company will now be allowed to continue to operate in the U.S. at least until the case goes to a full hearing.<\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s ban would have forced the removal of TikTok from smartphone app stores and end app updates, meaning no new users could download the app and it would eventually become nonfunctional.<\/p>\n<p>TikTok had filed for an injunction to halt the app store ban on Wednesday. The ban was a result of an executive order signed by Trump last month targeting ByteDance\u2019s video platform as well as the WeChat messaging app owned by China\u2019s Tencent technology company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge on Sunday temporarily&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28042,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28324,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28323\/revisions\/28324"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}