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U.S. government rejects the judge's order to block the WeChat app store ban
The U.S. Department of Justice announced on Friday that it was appealing against the judge's decision against stop the government from supplying Apple Inc. and Alphabet Inc. Google with a Chinese-owned WeChat messenger system for distribution in U.S. app stores.
The government said it objected to the U.S. Provisional junction of September 19. Judge Laurel Beeler of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeal. The warrant has blocked the U.S. Commerce Department policy that will also ban all U.S. purchases with Tencent Holding's WeChat, possibly rendering the service unusable in the United States.
Tencent 's U.S. spokeswoman did not comment immediately.
The Department of Justice said earlier that Beeler 's order was incorrect and requires the ongoing, unfettered use of WeChat, a smartphone application that the Executive Branch has described as a threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States.
Lawyers of the U.S. The WeChat Users Alliance, the organization behind the legal challenge to the WeChat ban, said on Friday that the Department has not yet raised any legitimate national security interest to support such an extraordinary ban and would fight the initiative.
The organization noted that Tencent was attempting to reach a deal with the Commerce Department and proposed a variety of mitigating steps to resolve data protection issues.
Beeler claimed that the users of WeChat have raised significant problems about the merits of the First Amendment argument. The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees freedom of expression.
WeChat has a total of 19 million active users a day in the United States, analytics company Apptopia said in early August. It is common among Chinese students, Americans living in China, and some Americans who have a personal or business relationship in China.
WeChat is an all-in-one web platform that incorporates features like Facebook , WhatsApp, Instagram and Venmo. For many in China, the app is an important part of everyday life and has more than 1 billion users.
On Sunday, U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols granted a similar temporary injunction to prohibit the U.S. app store ban on new TikTok applications. Nichols could not determine whether to prohibit any more limitations scheduled to take force on 12 November that could potentially forbid the use of the app, pending a series of court motions due by 30 October.
