Google ने भारत में बेहद लोकप्रिय वीडियो ऐप्प (TikTok) को ब्लॉक (TikTok Ban) कर दिया है. यानी अब (Google Play Store) से टिकटॉक वीडियो
ऐप्प को डाउनलोड (TikTok download) नहीं किया जा सकता
है. (Madras High Court) ने 3
अप्रैल को केंद्र से
टिकटॉक पर बैन लगाने को कहा था. साथ ही कोर्ट ने कहा था कि (TikTok
App) पॉर्नोग्राफी
को बढ़ावा देता है और बच्चों को यौन हिंसक बना रहा है. बता दें कि (TikTok) पर अश्लील सामग्री
परोसने का आरोप है. न्यूज ऐप के एक सर्वेक्षण के
अनुसार देश के 80 प्रतिशत युवा विवादित
चीनी वीडियो ऐप्प टिकटॉक पर प्रतिबंध लगाने के पक्ष में हैं. लोगों का मानना है कि
इससे अश्लीलता बढ़ रही है.
Is Really Tiktok app going to be banned in India?
The Indian
government has ordered Google and Apple to take down the Chinese-owned Tik tok
video app after a court expressed concerns over the spread of pornographic
material.
Tiktok has already been banned in neighbouring
Bangladesh and hit with a large fine in the United States for illegally
collecting information from children.
The app, which claims to have 500 million
users worldwide including more than 120 million in India, has been fighting the effort to shut
it down after a high court in Chennai called for the ban on 3 April.
The app was still available on Apple’s
platforms late on Tuesday, but was no longer available on Google’s Play store
in India.
The app – which allows users to make and
share short videos – can still be used by those who have already downloaded it
on their smartphones.
India’s supreme court, which on Monday
rejected a Tiktok appeal to suspend the order, is to hear the case again on 22
April.
“We have faith in the Indian judicial system
and we are optimistic about an outcome that would be well received by over 120
million monthly active users in India,” Tiktok said in a statement Tuesday.
The Chennai case was launched by an activist
group which said the app encouraged paedophiles and pornography.
With short
videos of up to 15 seconds, Tiktok has become a major rival to Facebook,
Instagram and other social network sites among teenage smartphone users in the
past year.
Tiktok has found particular popularity in
smaller cities and towns among first-time internet users who don’t speak
English, said Jayanth Kolla of technology consultancy Convergence Catalyst, a
demographic underserved by the large U.S.-based social media giants.
“It looks like the Chinese internet companies have cracked the code of getting
into India,” Kolla said. “The speed and the rate at which some of these apps
are growing, that is alarming. It definitely requires more time to study
better.”
But facing increased pressure the app, which is owned by Chinese firm
ByteDance, said last week it had taken down six million videos in India since
last July which had infringed its guidelines.
On Sunday a 19-year-old man was allegedly
shot dead by a friend in Delhi as they posed with a pistol to make a video to
show on TikTok, police told Indian media.
Three friends were driving in Delhi, when one
pulled out a homemade pistol and aimed it at the driver. Police said the gun
accidentally went off, shooting the man through the head.
And the moves in India to ban Tiktok are the
latest in a string of woes for the popular app.
Bangladesh banned Tiktok in February as part
of a clampdown on internet pornography.
The same month, the US Federal Trade
Commission said a $5.7m fine ordered against Tiktok was the largest imposed in
a child privacy investigation.
The social network failed to obtain parental
consent from underage users as required by the US Children’s Online Privacy
Protection Act, FTC officials said.
Tiktok has already been banned in neighbouring Bangladesh and hit with a large fine in the United States for illegally collecting information from children.
The app, which claims to have 500 million users worldwide including more than 120 million in India, has been fighting the effort to shut it down after a high court in Chennai called for the ban on 3 April.
The app was still available on Apple’s platforms late on Tuesday, but was no longer available on Google’s Play store in India.
The app – which allows users to make and share short videos – can still be used by those who have already downloaded it on their smartphones.
India’s supreme court, which on Monday rejected a Tiktok appeal to suspend the order, is to hear the case again on 22 April.
“We have faith in the Indian judicial system and we are optimistic about an outcome that would be well received by over 120 million monthly active users in India,” Tiktok said in a statement Tuesday.
The Chennai case was launched by an activist group which said the app encouraged paedophiles and pornography.
Tiktok has found particular popularity in smaller cities and towns among first-time internet users who don’t speak English, said Jayanth Kolla of technology consultancy Convergence Catalyst, a demographic underserved by the large U.S.-based social media giants.
“It looks like the Chinese internet companies have cracked the code of getting into India,” Kolla said. “The speed and the rate at which some of these apps are growing, that is alarming. It definitely requires more time to study better.”
But facing increased pressure the app, which is owned by Chinese firm ByteDance, said last week it had taken down six million videos in India since last July which had infringed its guidelines.
On Sunday a 19-year-old man was allegedly shot dead by a friend in Delhi as they posed with a pistol to make a video to show on TikTok, police told Indian media.
Three friends were driving in Delhi, when one pulled out a homemade pistol and aimed it at the driver. Police said the gun accidentally went off, shooting the man through the head.
And the moves in India to ban Tiktok are the latest in a string of woes for the popular app.
Bangladesh banned Tiktok in February as part of a clampdown on internet pornography.
The same month, the US Federal Trade Commission said a $5.7m fine ordered against Tiktok was the largest imposed in a child privacy investigation.
The social network failed to obtain parental consent from underage users as required by the US Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, FTC officials said.
0 Comments