Judge blocks Trump administration's attempts to ban downloads of Chinese app WeChat
WASHINGTON - A U.S. judge early Sunday blocked the Trump administration from requiring Apple Inc and Alphabet Inc’s Google to remove Chinese-owned messaging app WeChat for downloads by late Sunday.
On Friday, the U.S. Commerce Department had issued a order citing national security grounds to block the app from U.S. app stores owned by Tencent Holding’s and the Justice Department had urged Beeler not to block the order. Tencent and the Justice Department did not immediately comment. The Justice Department said blocking the order would “frustrate and displace the president’s determination of how best to address threats to national security.”
WeChat is an all-in-one mobile app that combines services similar to Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram and Venmo. The app is an essential part of daily life for many in China and boasts more than 1 billion users.The WeChat Users Alliance that had sued praised the ruling “as an important and hard-fought victory” for “millions of WeChat users in the U.S.”
Beeler also noted “there are obvious alternatives to a complete ban, such as barring WeChat from government devices.
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