[ti:Judge Blocks US Ban on New TikTok Downloads] [by:www.51voa.com] [00:00.00]更多听力请访问51VOA.COM [00:01.12]A U.S. judge has temporarily blocked a Trump administration order [00:07.92]to ban new downloads of the popular video-sharing app TikTok. [00:15.24]The order would have barred Apple and Google [00:19.40]from offering TikTok in their app stores beginning Monday. [00:25.92]TikTok is owned by ByteDance, a Chinese company. [00:31.92]U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols issued the order late Sunday in Washington. [00:40.52]His order did not block additional TikTok restrictions [00:45.24]set to take effect on November 12. [00:49.96]Those include technical and business measures [00:54.04]needed for the app to work correctly. [00:59.16]The U.S. Department of Commerce said in a statement [01:03.40]it would obey the judge's order. [01:07.64]The statement did not say whether the government [01:11.44]planned to appeal the decision. [01:15.32]The Commerce Department defended the TikTok order, [01:19.80]as well as an executive order by Trump [01:23.96]demanding that ByteDance stop its U.S. operations. [01:31.04]The Trump administration has said it considers TikTok [01:36.52]a national security threat because it collects personal information [01:43.16]on 100 million Americans who use the app. [01:49.40]The administration says that information [01:53.28]could be taken by the Chinese government. [01:57.96]The judge's action came as negotiations were already happening [02:04.76]on a deal for TikTok to enter a partnership with U.S. companies. [02:12.48]That deal involves Walmart Inc and Oracle, [02:17.64]which both would take stakes in TikTok Global, a new company. [02:25.00]It would permit the two companies [02:27.88]to supervise U.S. operations of TikTok Global. [02:34.32]President Trump has said he would favor the deal. [02:39.68]But some central terms of the agreement – including [02:43.96]who will have majority ownership - remain in dispute. [02:49.44]ByteDance has also said any deal will need to be approved by China. [02:57.24]The Chinese government has changed its list of technologies [03:02.20]that may be affected by export bans. [03:07.08]Those changes give China power over any TikTok deal. [03:14.00]Chinese state media have said they see no reason [03:19.20]for China to approve the deal. [03:22.60]They describe it as "bullying and extortion." [03:27.92]TikTok praised the judge's order and said it would continue its talks [03:34.04]with the U.S. government "to turn our proposal...into an agreement." [03:41.24]John E. Hall is a lawyer for TikTok. [03:46.28]He argued before Sunday's ruling that the attempted ban [03:51.20]was "unprecedented" and unreasonable. [03:56.08]He asked how the ban made sense [03:59.24]when a negotiated agreement could make it unnecessary. [04:05.16]Hall called the Trump administration's ban "punitive" [04:09.60]and said it was just trying to hurt the company. [04:14.88]"There is simply no urgency here," he said. [04:19.88]Representatives for Chinese state media welcomed the judge's ruling. [04:27.00]Hu Xijin operates the Chinese daily newspaper Global Times. [04:34.52]On Monday, he said on Twitter, "I think it is in line [04:39.60]with morality, justice and common sense." [04:44.56]A Justice Department statement said the judge's action [04:49.76]gets in the way of a "formal national security judgment of the president." [04:57.88]It added that the ruling continues to let ByteDance [05:03.40]collect "sensitive and valuable" information from users. [05:10.24]I'm Alice Bryant. 更多听力请访问51VOA.COM