Lawyer urges White Home, DOJ to make clear app shops might proceed to supply TikTok

(Reuters) – A lawyer for TikTok content material creators on Friday urged the White Home and the Justice Division to make clear to Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) and Google (NASDAQ:GOOGL) that they will proceed to supply the TikTok short-video app in app shops on Sunday when a authorized ban is about to take impact.

Jeffrey Fisher, who represented TikTok customers within the problem to the crackdown legislation earlier than the Supreme Court docket, wrote Lawyer Basic Merrick Garland and President Joe Biden on Friday, noting that the legislation forces TikTok, which is owned by China-based ByteDance, to close down on Sunday with out administration motion.

“We respectfully request that you just direct the Justice Division to pause enforcement till there’s additional definitive steering,” Fisher wrote. “We request that you just make clear that no app retailer, web internet hosting service, or different supplier faces any danger of enforcement or penalties with respect to TikTok, CapCut, or some other ByteDance apps, till such additional steering has been issued.”