WeChat Users Sue to Block Trump’s Ban of Messaging App
- Users say Trump’s order violate their constitutional rights
- Trump’s order said to be too vague to know what it prohibits
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A group of WeChat users asked a federal judge to block the Trump administration from imposing a ban on what they say appears to be all uses of the Chinese messaging app in the U.S. over national security concerns.
In a complaint filed Friday in federal court in San Francisco, Chinese-American lawyers who formed the U.S. WeChat Users Alliance claim President Donald Trump’s planned restriction on the app is unconstitutional. His Aug. 6 order bans Americans from carrying out transactions with WeChat and TikTok, another Chinese social-media platform, as of mid-September.