Justice Department releases letters to Apple, Google, and others about TikTok ban

A request from the Freedom of Information ACT produced letters that the United States Ministry sent to Google, Apple, Amazon and several other companies in order to highlight their concerns concerning a law that has prohibited web services from the United States to work with Tiktok.

The documents – obtained by Zhaocheng Anthony Tan, a Google shareholder who continued for their release earlier this year – show the Attorney General Pam Bondi and his Prosecutor General James Mchenry III promising to publish companies of responsibility to rape the Americans of protective against foreign opponents. The law aimed to force a sale of Tiktok from his Chinese parent company, Bytedance, due to national security problems.

In addition, the letters indicate that the Ministry of Justice will intervene to prevent anyone from trying to enforce the sanctions, a promise which includes the deposit of friendly memories or “intermediary in disputes”. MCHENRY apparently sent the first series of letters on January 30, ten days after Trump signed a decree that delayed the application of the law, which entered into force the day before its inauguration. A series of follow-up letters was sent by Bondi, including a round dated April 5, just after Trump has extended the delay in the application of the law in mid-June.

The existence of the letters was known, but so far, their text had not been released. The full list of recipients includes operators of application stores, cloud accommodation services, and even more:

Trump has since published a third extension, which expires in mid-September, while promising a sale of Tiktok by Bytedance to a non-Chinese owner remains in progress. It is not clear if one of the commands has a valid base in law.