Blackletter

Today a US appeal court is going to hear an appeal challenging the order that blocked the TikTok app from the store. Now that ban at least blocking it entirely from the App Store and blocking the users was stayed by another appeals court judge or a district court judge in September 27th. However, absent some kind of result from this appeal the TikTok app will be blocked. President Trump empowered the Justice Department to enforce that order a couple of weeks ago and TikTok, which has over a hundred million US users could soon be blocked. They have yet to finalize and close a deal with Walmart and Oracle that are in talks with TikTok to shift the US assets into a new entity that is aimed at satisfying President Trump's divestiture order.