The Indian government has directed Google and Apple to take down the Chinese-owned Tiktok video app after a court expressed worries over the spread of pornographic material. Tiktok has already been banned in Bangladesh and hit with a large fine in the US 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 struggling the effort to shut it down after a high court in Chennai called for the ban on 3 April.Information technology ministry had now sent out an order to Google and Apple to remove the app from their online stores. Neither of the US companies would comment. Google had complied with the order.
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 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.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 been in controversy in India.
As per media source.
