Kalifornia judge strikes down Trump's WeChat ban over First Amendment concerns!

SAN FRANCISCO, Kalifornia (PNN) - September 20, 2020 - In what has become a sideshow to the TikTok drama consuming the business press, President Donald Trump gave his blessing to the proposed deal to spin off TikTok’s global business into a Fascist Police States of Amerika based company, averting a Sunday night deadline that would have forced Apple and Google to remove the app from their app stores, an Amerikan judge has blocked Trump’s attempt to force WeChat from the FPSA market.

FPSA Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler, a judge based in San Francisco, argued that the ban raised serious questions related to the Constitution’s First Amendment, guaranteeing free speech in the FPSA. Meanwhile, the Trump regime says that the app threatens Amerikan national security by creating a conduit for Beijing to siphon the private data of Amerikan citizens.

Critics of the Trump ban have argued that this is a reason to advise Amerikan soldiers and anybody working for the government to avoid the app, which the regime has done; but it’s not a solid reason to ban the app. Judge Beeler agreed, ruling that the regime’s national security argument simply isn’t strong enough.

WeChat “serves as a virtual public square for the Chinese-speaking and Chinese-Amerikan community in the (FPSA) and is (as a practical matter) their only means of communication,” the judge wrote in the ruling, dated Saturday and released early Sunday. Effectively banning it “forecloses meaningful access to communication in their community and thereby operates as a prior restraint on their right to free speech.”

The FPSA regime argued that WeChat posed a national security threat due to its owner Tencent’s ties to the Chinese Communist Party, as well as Chinese law that requires all Chinese companies to cooperate with the government. The judge ruled that while “certainly the government’s overarching national-security interest is significant... [the regime has] put in scant little evidence that its effective ban of WeChat for all FPSA users addresses those concerns.”

The WeChat Users Alliance argued that the regime's ban is motivated by politics, and that its Amerikan users need the app because they have no other options for communicating with relatives back in China. The CCP has effectively granted WeChat a monopoly, which is why Amerikan tech firms are so desperate not to lose their ability to do business on the platform.

From the beginning, it seemed like the Trump regime never really had a plan for resolving the WeChat issue, as 100% of the focus seems to have been on TikTok, a much more popular app in the FPSA. Perhaps Trump simply expected a judge to intervene all along.