美国法官再次叫停商务部TikTok禁令

当地时间30日，美国宾夕法尼亚州地区法院法官温迪·比特斯通（Wendy Beetlestone）制止了一项原定于11月12日生效的、禁止任何美国企业与TikTok进行技术交易的禁令，该禁令此前由美国商务部下达。

据悉，新的制止令要求在法庭审理此案期间，美国商务部不得执行“禁止向TikTok在美业务提供数据储存、内容输送和其它技术交易”的禁令。

A federal judge has postponed President Donald Trump's threatened shutdown of the popular short-form video app TikTok, siding with a Pennsylvania comedian and two other TikTok creators who say Trump's order hampers their free speech. 

U.S. District Judge Wendy Beetlestone on Friday blocked an upcoming Commerce Department action that would have effectively banned TikTok in the U.S. by cutting it off from vital technical services. The ban was set to take effect Nov. 12, but is now on hold as the lawsuit proceeds. 

美国商务部目前并未对该裁决做出回应。

The Commerce Department and White House didn't immediately return requests for comment. 

据了解，此次诉讼由三名TikTok创作者发起。他们的律师对裁决结果表示了支持，并在声明中写道：“我们很高兴法官叫停了这项禁令，禁令显然是超出了紧急权力法案赋予总统的权力。”

Beetlestone's case in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania was brought forth not by the company, but three of its users who've built a following on the app: Douglas Marland, a comedian from Pennsylvania's Bucks County, along with Southern California fashion designer Cosette Rinab and Connecticut musician Alec Chambers. 

"We are pleased that the judge has halted this ban, which exceeds the President's authority under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, namely portions of the Act that reflect our nation's deep commitment to free speech," said their lawyer, Ambika Kumar Doran, in a prepared statement. 

比特斯通法官在裁决中指出，如果禁令生效，“原告将失去与他们在TikTok上的数百万粉丝互动的机会，也将随之失去相关的品牌赞助。”

她还强调，该禁令“将导致在美国境内关停一个被全球7亿人所使用的创作平台，而美国国内有超过1亿人在使用这款应用，其中至少5000万人天天都会使用TikTok。”

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事实上，这并非美国法官第一次叫停TikTok相关禁令。

当地时间9月27日，美国哥伦比亚特区联邦地区法院裁定，暂缓实施美国政府关于将TikTok从美国移动应用商店下架的行政令。这一行政令原本将在数小时内生效。

This is not the first court challenge to Trump's attempted crackdown on TikTok. Another federal judge in September postponed a Trump administration order that would have banned TikTok from smartphone app stores. In that case, lawyers for TikTok argued that the administration's app-store ban would infringe on First Amendment rights and do irreparable harm to the business. 

此次裁决结果出来后，TikTok临时负责人凡妮莎·帕帕斯（Vanessa Pappas）立即发表声明，对用户给予的支持表示感谢——

“创作者们的大力支持深深地感动了我们。尤其是在疫情期间，他们仍积极保护自己的表达权，保护自己的事业，帮助企业渡过难关。我们会支持勇于发声的用户社区，我们也将继续为他们提供一个值得为之努力的家园。”

TikTok said in a statement Friday that it is "deeply moved by the outpouring of support from our creators, who have worked to protect their rights to expression, their careers, and to helping small businesses, particularly during the pandemic."

另据美国知名科技媒体网站“The Verge”分析，比特斯通法官的最新裁决意味着TikTok取得了暂时性的成功，但这不代表特朗普政府不会采取其他手段继续尝试推进禁令。美国政府下一步的动向，可能将要由几天后的美国大选决定。

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