BREAKING: U.S. judge halts Trump administration's order to remove WeChat from app stores
WASHINGTON - A U.S. judge early Sunday blocked the Trump administration from requiring Apple Inc and Alphabet Inc's Google to remove Chinese-owned messaging app WeChat for downloads by late Sunday.
On Friday, the U.S. Commerce Department had issued a order citing national security grounds to block the app from U.S. app stores owned by Tencent Holding's and the Justice Department had urged Beeler not to block the order. Tencent and the Justice Department did not immediately comment. The Justice Department said blocking the order would"frustrate and displace the president’s determination of how best to address threats to national security."
Michael Bien, a lawyer for the users, said"the United States has never shut down a major platform for communications, not even during war times. There are serious First Amendment problems with the WeChat ban, which targets the Chinese American community."
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