WASHINGTON: A federal judge has postponed President Donald Trump's threatened shutdown of the popular short-form video app TikTok<\/a>, siding with a Pennsylvania comedian and two other TikTok creators who say Trump's order hampers their free speech.

US District Judge Wendy Beetlestone on Friday blocked an upcoming Commerce Department action that would have effectively banned TikTok in the US by cutting it off from vital technical services.

The Trump administration has said TikTok is a security threat, citing its Chinese owner, ByteDance, and the possibility that the Chinese government could spy on users. Trump's executive order was set to take effect November 12, but is now on hold as the lawsuit proceeds.

This is not the first court challenge to Trump's attempted crackdown on TikTok.

Another federal judge in September postponed a Trump administration order that would have banned TikTok from smartphone app stores.

In that case, lawyers for TikTok argued that the administration's app-store ban would infringe on First Amendment rights and do irreparable harm to the business.

But Beetlestone's case in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania was brought forth not by the company, but three of its users who've built a following on the app: Douglas Marland, a comedian from Pennsylvania's Bucks County, along with Southern California fashion designer Cosette Rinab and Connecticut musician Alec Chambers.

“We are pleased that the judge has halted this ban, which exceeds the President's authority under the International<\/a> Emergency Economic Powers Act, namely portions of the Act that reflect our nation's deep commitment to free speech,” said their lawyer, Ambika Kumar Doran, in a prepared statement.

The Commerce Department and White House didn't immediately return requests for comment. The administration has said it is exercising Trump's emergency authority under the 1977 law enabling a president to regulate international commerce to address unusual threats.

TikTok said in a statement Friday that it is “deeply moved by the outpouring of support from our creators, who have worked to protect their rights to expression, their careers, and to helping small businesses, particularly during the pandemic.”

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法官推迟特朗普的TikTok禁止用户在诉讼

一位联邦法官推迟了总裁唐纳德•特朗普的威胁关闭流行的短视频应用TikTok,站在宾夕法尼亚州一个喜剧演员和其他两名TikTok创造者说川普的命令妨碍了他们的言论自由。

美联社

更新2020年10月31日08:53点坚持

华盛顿:一位联邦法官推迟了总裁唐纳德•特朗普的威胁关闭流行的短视频应用TikTok宾夕法尼亚州,站在一个喜剧演员和其他两个TikTok创造者说川普的命令妨碍了他们的言论自由。

周五美国地区法官温迪Beetlestone阻止即将到来的商务部的行动,将会有效地禁止TikTok在美国削减它从至关重要的技术服务。

特朗普政府曾表示TikTok是一种安全威胁,援引中国老板,ByteDance,中国政府可以监视用户的可能性。特朗普的行政命令将11月12日生效,但现在随着诉讼的进行。

这已经不是第一对特朗普的企图镇压TikTok法庭挑战。

另一个联邦法官9月推迟了特朗普管理秩序,禁止TikTok智能手机应用程序商店。

在这种情况下,TikTok的律师认为,对于政府的禁令将侵犯宪法第一修正案的权利和对业务造成不可挽回的伤害。

但Beetlestone在宾夕法尼亚东部地区带来不了公司,但是三个用户已经建立了一个在app:道格拉斯Marland,来自宾夕法尼亚州的一个喜剧演员的雄鹿县以及南加州时装设计师珂赛特Rinab和康涅狄格音乐家亚历克·钱伯斯。

“我们很高兴法官停止这个禁令,这超过了总统的权威国际紧急经济权力法案,即部分的行为反映了我们国家的承诺言论自由,”说,他们的律师,Ambika Kumar多兰在一份事先准备好的声明。

美国商务部和白宫没有立即回复记者的置评请求。政府已表示,它正在行使特朗普的紧急权力根据1977年法律使总统调节国际贸易解决不寻常的威胁。

TikTok星期五在一份声明中说,它是“深深地感动了源源不断的支持我们的创造者,他们努力保护他们的权利来表达,他们的职业生涯,并帮助小企业,特别是在大流行。”