Social-Media
Judge refuses TikTok's request to postpone the ban, says they won't suffer 'irreparable harm'
The Pennsylvania judge denied a request from three TikTok content creators to immediately block an app ban scheduled to come into effect on Sunday night, which would prohibit new purchases from Google and Apple's app stores in the US.
Douglas Marland, Cosette Rinab, and Alec Chambers said they earn a living from the content they post on TikTok, saying the "About You" web page is unique among social media sites, since its algorithm enables "little-known creators to expose their content to a wide audience, according to the court filing.
Marland has 2.7 million TikTok subscribers, Rinab has 2.3 million, Chambers has 1.8 million. The three argued that they will lose access to tens of thousands of potential viewers and creators every month, an impact exacerbated by the looming possibility of a full closure of TikTok.
Judge Wendy Beetlestone said that the ban would pose "undoubtedly an annoyance," but said in refusing the request that the three had failed to show that they would suffer immediate, irreparable damage if new installs had been banned, as the app would remain active for existing subscribers — at least for the time being — if the ban had taken effect. They will still be able to create, post, and distribute content with their millions of current followers, the judge wrote in her opinion.
A judge in the Northern District of California dismissed a similar appeal for a temporary restraining order against the ban made by a staff member of TikTok. Patrick S. Ryan, Technical Program Manager at TikTok's Mountain View , California, also reported that his income would have been impacted by the ban: Ryan is worried that he might be punished for obtaining a paycheck from TikTok ... Or, instead, the TikTok refuses to pay him for fear of breaching the Executive Order, according to the court's submission.
Judge Vince Chhabria said that both situations constituted an unlikely sequence of events and that Ryan was unlikely to suffer irreparable damage without a restraining order.
Judge of the Washington D.C. It is predicted that today the decision will be taken to block the Trump administration 's ban on TikTok. At the end of Friday, the Department of Justice filed its opposition to TikTok 's request for an injunction against the ban, arguing that the injunction would infringe the President's power to block business-to - business commercial transactions with a foreign entity in the midst of a declared national security emergency.
In its appeal for an injunction, TikTok claimed that the order of the Trump administration violates the right to due process and freedom of expression.
President Trump originally gave the parent company ByteDance until 15 September to sell the video-sharing app, citing security concerns, and then ordered the app stores to ban it from 20 September.
TikTok got a last-minute reprieve after the president approved a tentative deal with Oracle last Sunday. A hearing is set for 9:30AM ET before U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols in Washington.
