A second federal judge has granted his second preliminary injunction preventing the federal government from effectively shutting TikTok down as the legal saga of the wildly popular video sharing app continues.The ruling by U.S.
District Judge Carl Nichols said the government had “exceeded the express limitations” of IEEPA – the Emergency Economic Power Act it used to bring the suit.
The act can ban transactions between the U.S. and foreign companies. The U.S. Commerce Department had cited privacy and security concerns in U.S.
dealings with TikTok, whose parent ByteDance is a giant Chinese conglomerate.Judge Nichols, in Washington, D.C., in late September had granted a preliminary injunction that allowed consumers to continue downloading
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