The all-in-one mobile app has had an average of 19 million daily active users in America. FMTNews WeChat
WASHINGTON: The US Justice Department asked a federal judge in San Francisco early on Friday to allow the government to bar Apple Inc and Alphabet Inc’s Google from offering WeChat for download in US app stores pending an appeal.
The Justice Department filing said Beeler’s order was in error and “permits the continued, unfettered use of WeChat, a mobile application that the executive branch has determined constitutes a threat to the national security and foreign policy of the US”.In support of its argument, the Justice Department made public portions of a Sept 17 Commerce Department memo outlining the WeChat transactions to be banned.
The Justice Department filing said “the First Amendment does not bar regulation of WeChat simply because it has achieved the popularity and dependency sought by , precisely so it can surveil users, promote its propaganda, and otherwise place US national security at risk”.
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