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]]>TikTok founded in 2012 by Zhang Yiming, is a Chinese video-sharing social networking service owned by ByteDance. It was first launched as Douyin in China in 2016 and in 2017 as TikTok for iOS and Android international markets. Today it is available in 150 markets and in 75 languages. The app allows users to create short music and lip-sync videos of 3 to 15 seconds and short looping videos of 3 to 60 seconds. It merged with Musical.ly in August 2018 and has seen a meteoric rise since. In 2019, media outlets cited Tik Tok as the 7th-most-downloaded mobile app of the decade, from 2010 to 2019. It was also the most-downloaded app on the App Store in 2018 and 2019. Today, Kevin Mayer, CEO of Tik Tok faces the biggest challenge with India banning this app.
The decision to ban Tik Tok is based upon issues like: –
The government’s press release states “The Ministry of Information Technology, invoking its power under section 69A of the Information Technology Act read with the relevant provisions of the Information Technology (Procedure and Safeguards for Blocking of Access of Information by Public) Rules 2009 and in view of the emergent nature of threats has decided to block 59 apps since in view of information available they are engaged in activities which is prejudicial to sovereignty and integrity of India, defence of India, security of state and public order,”
Here is a list of the Chinese apps that are banned in India as of June 29, 2020 –
India, under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, is set to become an economic and political giant. This unprecedented move to ban 59 Chinese apps is only a page in history. The book on new India is still being written. It time to applaud such a bold move that is beyond ‘Twitter chatter’. It’s time to stand by it.
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