U.S. court rejects TikTok's request to suspend 'prohibition of business rights' effect

The Chinese video sharing platform "TikTok," which is on the verge of being banned from business in the United States due to the so-called "TikTok Compulsory Sale Act," asked the court to suspend the law, but it was not accepted.

On the 13th local time, a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., rejected a provisional injunction filed by TikTok's Chinese parent company ByteDance, asking that the enforcement of the forced sale law be suspended until the Supreme Court decides.

Earlier in April, the U.S. Congress passed a law that would have ByteDance sell TikTok's U.S. business rights within 270 days and ban services in the U.S. if not within the period.

Also on the 6th of this month, the three-judge federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., rejected ByteDance's claim that the "TikTok Compulsory Sale Act" was unconstitutional and found it constitutional as the federal Justice Department said.

Meanwhile, Reuters and others reported that the U.S. House of Representatives' Special Committee on Strategic Competition emphasized to Google and Apple that TikTok should be ready to be removed from the app store on January 19 next year.

The special committee also urged TikTok CEO Chu Shouz to immediately carry out the sale, saying, "Congress has acted decisively to protect U.S. security and U.S. TikTok users from the Chinese Communist Party."