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Indian government asks Apple and Google to take down TikTok app
- esrauch 7y agoChrist, that site is probably the worst ad-laden/features promos experience on mobile that I've seen.
- talonx 7y agoIt's no better on the desktop. With uBlockOrigin, I can see 33 primary domains (ad and social networks), and 3 times that number secondary ones, blocked.
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- morganvachon 7y agoYes, and it breaks the back button too. That is one of my major pet peeves and I immediately add any site that does it to a black hole filter.
- qnsi 7y agoNo ads for me, thanks to Pi-Hole gods
- theandrewbailey 7y agoTurn off Javascript for this site. I use uMatrix, and this site is both usable and ad-free. It's quite pleasant, actually.
- ignoramous 7y agoYep. Mindless advertising is huge in India because ad-blockers aren't really mainstream yet. mirror: https://outline.com/7Fz8wB https://outline.com/7Fz8wB
- dbasedweeb 7y agoIt is bad, but I’ve seen one worse: metacritic. That site is hot garbage.
- umeshunni 7y agoLess terrible site: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tiktok-india-court/indian-court-refuses-to-suspend-ban-order-on-chinese-app-tiktok-idUSKCN1RS1HT https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tiktok-india-court/indian...
- rkho 7y agoThis should be the link in the OP
- _bxg1 7y agoThey didn't explain the actual reason until literally the last sentence
- 0xcafecafe 7y agoThat's a fair sample of Indian mainstream media for you. Most of the stuff will be in the headline with some info sprinkled in the article.
- symlinkk 7y agoIndian media? All media is like that.
- OnlyRepliesToBS 7y agohow do you want this wrapped?
- swatkat7 7y ago"ByteDance’s applications TikTok and Helo are hugely popular among India’s teen and pre-teen population, especially in smaller towns. Many Chinese apps, including TikTok, have come under fire not only in India but also in the US, the UK, Hong Kong and Indonesia for content that is often dangerously close to exposing children to nudity and possibly those who seek to coerce or groom underage users into committing explicit acts." Saved you a click. The rest of the article is fluff.
- mromanuk 7y agoI always read the comment section first, for this, actually I'm not going to read the article.
- mayankkaizen 7y agoYou did great job. Because the Times group in India is known for outrageous advertising and cheap journalism.
- robocat 7y agoTikTok's argument is also relevant: In its petition to the Supreme Court [snip] The app was like any other social media platform, it said, adding that singling out TikTok was discriminatory and arbitrary.
- yorwba 7y agoThey probably also have a pretty good nudity filter, considering that all pornography is illegal in China.
- vegiraghav 7y agoSearch on youtube "tiktok indian videos". You will probably campaign to make the ban permanent.
- kobiguru 7y ago
- tareqak 7y agoGoogle has now blocked Tik Tok in India as a result [0]. [0] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tiktok-india-court/google-blocks-chinese-app-tiktok-in-india-after-court-order-idUSKCN1RS1HT https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tiktok-india-court/google...
- drak0n1c 7y agoYouTube also blocked two PewDiePie videos and their comments sections in India on behalf of the high court following a corporate defamation suit. Lately it's not unusual for Indian courts to censor specific media productions and platforms.
- jjcm 7y agoWhich is ironic, as one of those two videos has a specific section about it legally not being defamation. The Indian courts granted an ex parte injunction against pewdiepie though because he didn’t show up in court in India.
- nonamechicken 7y agoI think the ban is not because of defamation. >It must be noted all the claims put forward by PewDiePie to T-Series were false. Pewdiepie in his Congratulations video talked about tax evasions, relation of T-Series with mafia, and a very big blame of sexual assault. >Pewdiepie didn't stop here and said that Indians have poo poo in their brains. He made fun of Caste system and poverty in India. >The High Court said that the songs have “repeated comments made which are abusive, vulgar and also racist in nature,” https://www.quora.com/Why-did-Delhi-High-Court-banned-PewDiePies-diss-songs https://www.quora.com/Why-did-Delhi-High-Court-banned-PewDie... https://www.firstpost.com/tech/news-analysis/high-court-orders-youtube-to-pull-down-pewdiepies-diss-songs-against-t-series-6437621.html https://www.firstpost.com/tech/news-analysis/high-court-orde... The next hearing on this case is some time in July. I think the defamation part will be looked into then. I am happy the court put a ban on his videos so quickly. Assuming he didn't have any intentions other than making money, he was purposefully creating more controversy so that he can make even more money as though $10-15 million he makes every year now is not good enough. By banning the videos, the court at least denied him the Indian view counts.
- udwum 7y agoTikTok is a Chinese application so I wonder if there are other interests at play.
- zavi 7y agoCheck out Weibo, there's already a Proud Han army furiously attributing this ban to an Indian-American conspiracy designed to stop China's rightful rise. The reality is, if you are unable to prevent millions of your users from seeing videos of sexualized children you will get in trouble.
- icsllaf 7y agoWhat separates Tik-Tok and other sites which also show millions of sexualized people like Instagram? There obviously is a reason to be against China in this ban otherwise they'd ban a ton of other apps as well.
- zavi 7y agoInstagram is significantly better at filtering out content featuring minors.
- hangonhn 7y agoPornography is outright illegal in China so I imagine TikTok has that part nailed down.
- zavi 7y agoYou don't have to imagine, you can use it for 30 minutes yourself, it's wild west.
- StudyAnimal 7y agoI did, no porn or even casual nudity to be found. It’s squeaky clean. Search terms that might return anything like nudity or violence return 0 results and I checked to see if I was in restricted mode or not. It’s the same as Snapchat, just as clean, just as boring.
- pujan28 7y agoBut why would the government be in in involved in banning apps. Don't we have more important cases pending.
- rajesh26 7y agoYess why?
- devmunchies 7y agoI have no idea why people would want the government to step in. Forfeiting freedom because it's more convenient than being a hard-ass parent and not letting your child use the app or phone.
- lucasmullens 7y agoThere are certainly apps that should be illegal where the government should step in, right? Unless you're arguing that all apps should be legal?
- malshe 7y agoThis is literally at the top of the article: The move, by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), comes after the Supreme Court on Monday refused to stay an earlier order by the Madras High Court to ban the app. So, the government banned the app on highcourt's order
- sbmthakur 7y agoThe government banned the app at the directive of the court.
- pavlov 7y agoAFAIK India is TikTok's second largest market after its native China. There's big money at stake here. ByteDance, the company behind TikTok, is one of the most valuable private companies in the world: its last fundraising round was at a valuation of $75 billion USD.
- ignoramous 7y agoTelegram is a cess pool of piracy and porn. Wonder why the government is silent about that? Because it isn't e2e encrypted and the powers-that-be can mine data out of it? Spread propaganda? The point is, where does the buck stop? After having forked the internet? The current right-wing Indian government is rampant with its moral policing both on the ground (banning beef, banning couples from having consensual sex unless they are married) and on the interwebs (banning games like PubG, banning porn, attacking free speech by indicting individuals speaking against the govt or the Prime Minister), so the current ban on TikTok suits the pattern to a tee. The elections are on-going right now, and it'd be interesting to see if people vote back in the incumbent to power again. Now, that'd be some mandate and a GFW would be a well deserved eventual reward.
- fourier_mode 7y agoTelegram not being much popular among pre-teens/teens is one reason why it has not received any attention. On similar news TikTok has been accused numerous times of promoting/not filtering contents inciting extremism in teens.
- ignoramous 7y agoFrom what I have seen, telegram has replaced Google and torrent search engines in finding downloadable content. It has become, in affect, a parallel content sharing platform in on itself, much like how WhatsApp has replaced facebook in 'connecting the world'.
- wyqydsyq 7y agoTelegram does have e2e encryption on "private" chats
- ignoramous 7y agoPirated content and porn are spread through groups which aren't e2e. https://theoutline.com/post/4143/telegram-is-the-hot-new-source-for-illegal-downloads https://theoutline.com/post/4143/telegram-is-the-hot-new-sou...
- cloudengineer 7y agoThe issue has to do more with culture than exposed children. The kulcha warriors are worried about exposure by women.
- jvsg 7y agoThe same kulcha warriors also decriminalized homosexuality. While your favorite party (read family) was not able to for decades of their rule.
- wataruspeedo 7y agoClicked link. Saw notification request and Google sign in. Left.
- bruceb 7y agoTikTok is one of a couple Chinese apps that have similar disturbing content in India. https://factordaily.com/chinese-app-kwai-turns-a-blind-eye-to-videos-of-underage-girls-in-india/ https://factordaily.com/chinese-app-kwai-turns-a-blind-eye-t...
- grwthckrmstr 7y agoLol, I clicked the link hoping to read the article, got bombarded with a dozen pops and what not. Then I was like, "ah Indiatimes, my mistake my mistake. I should have checked the link" (I'm from India and I avoid Indian media sites like a plague)
- hermitdev 7y agoAlso, yet another site that won't render with javascript enabled. At least I didn't get the dozens of pop ups you encountered.
- wincy 7y agoI made sure to click their fake "allow notifications" modal so that the browser one would pop up and I could click "never allow".
- grwthckrmstr 7y agoI'll do that next time!
- mathnmusic 7y agoAnyone got a link to an APK that is safe to install?