The Chinese social network TikTok presented a petition to the US Justice on Wednesday to prevent the executive order issued by US President Donald Trump from taking effect and the application being banned in the country.
The popular platform, owned by ByteDance, filed the petition with District Judge Carl J. Nichols of Washington DC, alleging that such a ban would violate freedom of expression and violate due process.
In the documentation given to the judge, the firm asked that it resolve before midnight on Sunday, the new deadline for a potential ban after the extension decreed by Trump himself last weekend after preliminarily approving the agreement reached between ByteDance and the US companies Oracle and Walmart.
If the judge does not agree to the petition and there is nothing new between Thursday and Sunday, Google and Apple, which control the two main virtual stores for mobile phones, would be forced to withdraw TikTok from them in the United States in compliance with the presidential order.
Trump forces Oracle and Walmart to have "total control"
On Monday, Trump already threatened not to definitively approve the agreement reached between Oracle and Walmart with ByteDance on TikTok if US companies do not have "total control" over the resulting partnership, despite having previously given its preliminary approval. .
The two parties to the agreement - American and Chinese - have offered contradictory versions in recent days as to whether ByteDance would continue to be a main part of the shareholding of the new company that is created to manage the TikTok business in the United States.
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