TikTok Banned : Government Has Ordered Apple And Google To Take Down The Application From App Stores
Google and Apple have been directed by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MEITY) to take down TIK TOK the Chinese short video application from App Store and Google Play.
Madras High Court on April 3rd passed an interim order to ban the application in the country, without even giving TikTok a chance to defend itself.
TikTok has humongous popularity all over the globe, the video-sharing application which has 0.5 billion users and over 119 million users are from India most of which are teenagers. The application which allows its users to create funny videos and contents was discriminated for allowing sleazy and pornographic content on the application.
Supreme Court on Monday refused to put a stay on the earlier order passed by the Madras High Court to ban the app. A board head by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi posted to hear the matter on 22nd March.
As the high court, ordered to ban the application Meity is ensuring that and has asked Google and Apple to delete it from their respective App stores. It will help to stop further downloads of the application, but the people who already have the application in their smartphones will be able to use it.
The Senior Advocate of Byte Dance, Abhishek Manu Singhvi, urged for a stay against the ban as it’s causing massive damage to the Company. The owner of TikTok, ByteDance has earlier appealed against the High Court directive to the apex court.
Byte Dance presented a petition to the Supreme Court stating it can’t be held liable for the third part actions on the application. It is just like other social media platforms.
TikTok has already removed 6 million videos from India for violating the community guidelines.
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