TikTok Ban! – Read Full Story
What is the Curious Case of TikTok Ban?? The Madras High Court has reversed its ban on the entertainment app TikTok, which means that the short-video app can now return to both Google’s Play store and Apple’s app store. Earlier in April, the state court found that the app was encouraging content around pornography and other illicit ones and on the similar lines, India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology had ordered the removal of the app from both the stores. The result of the ban only affected the upcoming new users who were looking to download TikTok on to their mobile devices for the very first time. The ban would not affect the users who had already installed the app but at the same time, this decision served a major setback to TikTok’s owner company ByteDance. The Chinese company claimed that the ban was accounting for a daily loss of $500,000 and at the same time was putting some 250 jobs at risk. India: One of the Biggest Market Place for TikTok India ...