The U.S. Commerce Department said on Monday it will challenge an order issued Sunday by a U.S. judge that blocked the department's order requiring Apple and Google to remove WeChat from their U.S. app stores.
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Commerce Department said on Monday it will challenge an order issued Sunday by a U.S. judge that blocked the department’s order requiring Apple and Google to remove WeChat from their U.S. app stores.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler in San Francisco issued a preliminary injunction that blocked the department’s order, which would also have barred other U.S. transactions with Tencent Holding’s WeChat, potentially making the app unusable in the United States. Beeler said WeChat users who filed a lawsuit “have shown serious questions going to the merits of the First Amendment claim.”
The Justice Department had urged Beeler not to block the action, saying it would “frustrate and displace the president’s determination of how best to address threats to national security.”WeChat has had an average of 19 million daily active users in the United States, analytics firms Apptopia said in early August. It is popular among Chinese students, Americans living in China and some Americans who have personal or business relationships in China.
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