FILE PHOTO: The TikTok app's logo seen on a mobile phone screen in this picture illustration taken February 21, 2019. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui/Illustration/File Photo
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department on Wednesday asked two federal appeals courts to put on hold government appeals of lower court rulings blocking restrictions the Trump administration imposed on Chinese-owned app TikTok.
Under former President Donald Trump, the Commerce Department sought to ban Apple Inc and Alphabet Inc's Google app stores from offering TikTok for download to new users and to ban other technical transactions TikTok said would effectively barred the app's use in the United States.
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