A court of appeals USA rejected this Friday to paralyze the entry into force of a federal law that requires TikTok to separate itself from its parent company, the Chinese ByteDance, or be banned in the United States at the end of next January.
TikTok and ByteDance They requested a temporary pause last Monday after three judges of that court were in favor of the law, which was approved by Congress in April and that forces the social network to disassociate itself from ByteDance or be banned in the country on January 19.
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The companies had requested this precautionary measure to buy time while they prepared an appeal to the Supreme Court to review the case, and it is expected that they will present it soon before the highest judicial instance in the country, since time is of the essence.
The Washington Court of Appeals rejected the request, arguing that Congress made a “deliberate choice” in setting its deadline for the sale or veto of TikToksubject to a single extension, according to the decision document issued this Friday.
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The Justice Department had asked the court to reject the request for TikTok alluding to the “key national security interests underlying the law”.
The deadline has a strong symbolic load, since it is the last day of Joe Biden as president, since the next day, January 20, the president-elect, donald trumpwill be invested.
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This has been one of the arguments of the social network in its writing, which considers that the paralysis of the law is “especially appropriate” because, as they say, it will give the incoming Administration time “to determine your position”.
The Biden Executive and congressmen from the Democratic and Republican parties approved the rule motivated by fear that the Chinese Government could obtain information about users in the United States from ByteDance and use its influence over American public opinion by manipulating what people see. in the application.
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Trump, for his part, who tried to ban the platform during his first term (2017-2021), said, during the electoral campaign, that if he were the winner of the elections “I would save TikTok in the United States”.
However, he has not commented on the case since he was declared the winner of last November’s presidential elections.
