The Commerce Department announced on Friday morning, Sept.18, that it would officially launch a "no-trade" order against social app and TikTok from Sept.20, early Sunday morning.
Specifically, the order will force apple and google to remove social app from App Store and Google Play us. New users will not be able to download and register at the U. S. Application Mall social app; which also means that old users will not be able to update social app through normal channels (Tik Tok). At the same time, the Ministry of Commerce will also prohibit money transactions or payment processing functions in the social app.
However, in interviews with individual users, Ministry of Commerce officials, such as Reuters, said the order was not aimed at individual users ," our goal is to impose restrictions at the enterprise level, not to pursue individual users ", and not to punish those who use social app.
Reading the contents of the command shows that starting at 0 a.m. on September 20, this command may have the following effects (reference measures) on users and developers using social app services in the United States. )
(1) Users who have not yet downloaded and registered will not be able to download and download at the U.S. District App Store,Google Play and any other U.S. company- application stores social app. as social app will be removed from the shelves at that time;
2) the same way, old users who download and register social app in the U.S. will not be able to receive a social app version upgrade;
The two main effects are users who have not downloaded social app, and existing social app users are not affected. Response: Android users can download, update and use it through social app website or unregulated third-party website platform social app. Apple users can register other country accounts, such as Canada, Australia, China and so on, download and use
3) users in the United States will not make any transactions involving money in the social app, such as transfers, red envelopes, payments and receipts.
Furthermore, the Ministry of Commerce orders may have the following effects on commercial and social institutions dealing with social app in various ways:
1) at that time, no company may provide Internet hosting, CDN services for social app, or traffic transfer (transit) and peer (peering) services;
2) developers of products developed or available in the United States may not use the code, functions and services provided by the social app, meaning that third-party companies must remove all social app aspects of the API、SDK, embedded sharing, payment collection functions, etc.
This in principle for ordinary users to use social app chat, hair Time line and other routine operations have little impact. However, it may be inconvenient for users to remove the application mall and prohibit the use of money transactions as sanctions
For example, it is quite common for Chinese to set up small and medium-sized enterprises to provide catering and other services, using the legal social app third-party payment function in the United States to optimize the customer experience, but within the scope of the ban. The ban will seriously affect the legitimate rights and interests of these individual users and small and medium-sized enterprises.
Commerce Department officials told Reuters and other U.S. media that the order would not affect U.S. companies operating in China (such as Wal-Mart, Starbucks and others using social app Mini Programs to serve Chinese consumers), or target individual users. "
A senior official told Reuters that the Ministry of Commerce order was designed to keep users from being downloaded and updated, leading to a gradual decline in the availability of applications ," allowing users to gradually find other alternatives. "
The U.S.-Microunion, a non-profit organization sponsored by a Chinese lawer, has filed a lawsuit against the US government social app ban. Two days ago, the United States Department of Justice issued a letter to the court stating that people and organizations could still use social app for personal and commercial purposes and that the Department would not hold them accountable for their law.
With regard to the Ministry of Commerce's latest order, the Federation said: after receiving the U.S. Department of Justice's guarantee not to prohibit individuals social app users from using social app, it was expected that the Ministry of Commerce would probably ignore the guarantee, or even deliberately make trouble and drill law holes, so it insisted on seeing it in court and never stopping until it received a clear, thorough and no room for a presidential decree. As the implementation rules issued by the Ministry of Commerce this morning fully confirmed the U.S. and micro association's speculation, I am urgently preparing supplementary materials for the implementation rules lawer to the California court to try to issue an injunction. The presidential decree and the Ministry of Commerce's implementation rules are suspended.
The latest news is that the judge has the will to urgently hold a motion today hearings. after the u.s. micro union filed a motion with the court to prevent the u.s. commerce department and other relevant departments from imposing a social app ban, and to exempt users of any disobedience orders from criminal and civil liability within 60 days after the ban officially defined the transaction. On yesterday's first hearings, however, judge did not issue a ruling. Now that a formal order from the Commerce Department has been issued today, if today's emergency hearings is held, judge is likely to make a new judgment on the matter.
