Pitchfork, US District Judge Carl J. Nichols issued the ruling on Sunday (September 27), commenting that the company hadn’t had enough time to defend itself against Trump’s executive order to ban the app.Additionally, Variety reported that Nichols said the US Government’s action was “largely a unilateral decision with very little opportunity for the plaintiffs to be heard, and the result – whether we’re talking about November or tonight – is a fairly significant deprivation.”Though he blocked the September 27 ban, Nichols denied TikTok’s request to overturn Trump’s November 12 deadline to sell its US assets.The video sharing platform released a statement following the hearing, thanking the court for ruling against its removal from app.
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