Video app TikTok's India download ban worries wider tech industry

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India's ban on downloading video app TikTok has heightened concerns over technology companies facing increased scrutiny and regulatory challenges in an important market by AdityaKalra Sankalp_sp

said the app encouraged pornography and asked the government to ban it. The federal IT ministry then issued a follow-up directive to Google and Apple.

A TikTok spokesman said on Wednesday that it had faith in the judicial system and was “optimistic about an outcome that would be well received by” its millions of users in India. The state court will next hear the case on April 24. But industry executives said the ruling against TikTok was particularly worrisome, given that it originated from a public interest complaint brought by an individual in Tamil Nadu - opening their digital content to judicial scrutiny that could potentially derail their India strategy overnight.

Singapore-based Bigo, which has a live video streaming app, has also been expanding in India. TikTok’s owner Bytedance Technology Co, one of the world’s most valuable start-ups, also runs another social app named Helo, which allows users to share content in local languages.

 

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adityakalra sankalp_sp Yes, everything will be banned in this country which is not in a national interest. This is new india. Technology companies cant colonize our citizens and compromise our data.

adityakalra sankalp_sp Free speech? What a riot... coming from China? '...The Chinese company unsuccessfully argued at the Supreme Court last week that a ban 'amounts to curtailing of the (free speech) rights of the citizens of India'...'

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