It seemed like a joke, when we first heard in August about Donald Trump wanting to ‘ban’ TikTok from the US market. But Donald Trump is obviously a man of his word and he managed to sign executive orders much faster than building the infamous wall on the border with Mexico. Although before those orders came in force, Tiktok’s lawyers have taken the orders to court.
On December 7, 2020, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia granted a nationwide preliminary injunction against the enforcement of Executive Order (E.O.) 13942, limited to the Secretary of Commerce’s Identification of Prohibited Transactions with TikTok/ByteDance. The court’s ruling is consistent with the nationwide preliminary injunction granted by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on October 30, 2020. The Department maintains that the E.O. is fully consistent with law and promotes legitimate national security interests. The Government will continue to comply with the injunctions and has taken immediate steps to do so, but intends to vigorously defend the E.O. and the Secretary’s implementation efforts from legal challenges.
US government appeals TikTok injunction by TechCrunch on Scribd
The above means, the U.S. government is appealing the TikTok ban, according to a new court filing. But this isn’t only about TikTok and Donald Trump. A huge moral question here is, if it’s alright that governments might have the right to ban apps. And what they can ban next? Apps, websites, currencies. Wait a minute…we heard this story before. China has been actively censoring the internet for many years and even managed to ban cryptocurrencies. And everything was just perfectly justified as ‘national threat’. But is this story going to repeat on our side of the globe?
The answer is ‘yes, no, we don’t know’ since there are plenty of rumors in the European Union about regulating cryptocurrencies – and the ones that won’t comply will be simply banned.
Germany, France, Italy, Spain, and the Netherlands have asked the European Commission to regulate asset-backed cryptocurrencies. This request advocates that stablecoins should not be allowed to operate in 27 European countries until regulatory challenges and risks have been addressed.
by Cryptobriefing
Will be see a similar action against those decisions? Shouldn’t internet be a free place? What is a national threat and what is a thoughtless ban?
China is the first country in the world which has already implemented national cryptocurrency on their economy. Moreover, China created a platform to connect different cryptocurrencies between each other.
Donald Trump has threatened to block TikTok in order for the Chinese to sell the “franchise” of the fastest-growing phone app to an American company.
Thank you for clarifying the facts, although the point of my post is that government wants control over everything. Maybe China brought their cryptocurrency in, but it is controlled and regulated.
I don’t see crypto being implemented anytime soon in US or EU. For them to do that they have to give up the dominant position of the currency they have in place. So far crypto seems like a gambling, you buy it for a price and hope that someone will pay more for it tomorrow.
In China though, the government is somewhat involved with all the big tech companies, so they can have a better control, unlike the US or Europe.
I think internet should be a free place. Maybe he wants to ban TikTok also because of all the hate towards him that is spread on that app. Also I think that he should have focused on some more major issues that an app where people are dancing.
In my opinion, in the year of a global pandemic, it is really strange for him to pay attention to such thing as TikTok. There are a lot of more serious problems which are waiting for the solution and decision.
The bigger the conflict, the bigger restrictions. Even now internet is being increasingly censored. It is only matter of if it is against morality to restrict internet’s content and if it is worth it.