A U.S. judge early Sunday blocked the Commerce Department from requiring
Apple and Alphabet’s Google to remove Tencent Holding’s WeChat for
downloads by late Sunday.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler in California said in an order that
WeChat users who filed a lawsuit “have shown serious questions going to the
merits of the First Amendment claim, the balance of hardships tips in the
plaintiffs favor.“
Beeler’s preliminary injunction also blocked the Commerce order that would
have barred other transactions with WeChat in the United States that could
have degraded the site’s usability for current U.S. users. The U.S.
Commerce Department did not immediately comment.
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