TikTok set to sue US government following \u201cunconstitutional\u201d ban UnsplashThere was outrage across the internet when people found out about President Donald Trump\u2019s plans to ban TikTok in the US. But it looks like the popular video-sharing app isn\u2019t going down without a fight, as they launch plans to sue Trump\u2019s administration. On August 6th, Trump signed an executive order that bans TikTok owners Bytedance from making any transactions in the US starting September 20th. The order claimed that \u201cTikTok automatically captures vast swaths of information from its users, including Internet and other network activity information such as location data and browsing and search histories.\u201d In order to protect themselves, Bytedance has been in talks to sell the US operations on to another company, with Microsoft seeming to be the most likely buyer. But with September 20th creeping ever closer, Bytedance have taken a more direct approach to preventing the ban by announcing they would be suing Trump\u2019s administration, possibly as soon as Tuesday, August 11. According to National Public Radio, the lawsuit will argue that the ban is \u201cunconstitutional\u201d because Bytedance wasn\u2019t given a chance to respond to the US administration. The company also claims that the ban is based on \u201cpure speculation and conjecture.\u201d Trump\u2019s administration has not yet responded to the threat of a lawsuit, but a spokesman for the White House Judd Deere claimed they were committed to protecting the American people from all cyber-related threats to critical infrastructure, public health and safety, and our economic and national security.\u201d What\u2019s the real reason behind the ban? While Trump claims that personal data-mining is the reason for the ban, some theories have pointed to an alternative motive. In June, TikTok users registered for thousands of tickets to a Trump rally with no intention of ever turning up. The rally was held at the BOK center, which has a 19,000 seat capacity, but only 6200 tickets were ever actually scanned in. While there\u2019s no guessing what the outcome of this bitter battle between US administration and Bytedance will be, it will certainly be interesting to see who will end off worse off. And if the ban does go ahead, how will the huge US TikTok userbase deal with it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
TikTok set to sue US government following \u201cunconstitutional\u201d ban UnsplashThere was outrage across the internet when people found out about President Donald Trump\u2019s plans to ban TikTok in the US. But it looks like the popular video-sharing app isn\u2019t going down without a fight, as they launch plans to sue Trump\u2019s administration. On August 6th, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}