TikTok Demands President Trump On Banning US Operations

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JAKARTA - The feud between the TikTok short video application and the President of the United States (US) Donald Trump is heating up. After briefly challenging policies related to executive orders, this time TikTok also sued President Donald Trump.

TikTok has previously filed suit against Trump's executive order banning transactions with the app and its Chinese parent company ByteDance. In addition, the company was asked to sell its business to the US.

In a statement, TikTok has tried to hold back and show good faith. However, the implementation of this policy is considered by TikTok as a form of US intervention in private business that must be faced legally.

"To ensure that the rule of law is not ignored and our companies and users are treated fairly, we have no choice but to challenge executive orders through the justice system," said a TikTok spokesman, as quoted by BBC International, Monday, August 24.

In a BBC International report, TikTok has filed a lawsuit in a US court. They said the August 6 executive order contravened the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.

This also forces ByteDance to sell TikTok businesses and operations to US companies. Trump gave ByteDance 90 days to divest TikTok's US operations with bidders from Microsoft and Oracle.

Previously, TikTok had also created a special page to ward off issues circulating regarding the use of user data sent to the Chinese government. This also affected a number of Chinese companies operating in the US.

Tencent's WeChat short message app was also affected by the executive order. In fact, the Alibaba franchise is also reportedly being targeted by Trump and prohibited from making transactions in the US.