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Indian government asks Apple and Google to take down TikTok app

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Re: Indian government asks Apple and Google to take down TikTok app

#42

Lol, 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)

Also, yet another site that won't render with javascript enabled. At least I didn't get the dozens of pop ups you encountered.

Re: Indian government asks Apple and Google to take down TikTok app

#44

Lol, 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)

I made sure to click their fake "allow notifications" modal so that the browser one would pop up and I could click "never allow".

Re: Indian government asks Apple and Google to take down TikTok app

#45

The issue has to do more with culture than exposed children. The kulcha warriors are worried about exposure by women.

The same kulcha warriors also decriminalized homosexuality. While your favorite party (read family) was not able to for decades of their rule.

Re: Indian government asks Apple and Google to take down TikTok app

#46
post #9

Google has now blocked Tik Tok in India as a result [0]. [0] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tiktok-india-court/google...

YouTube 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.

When did this happen? I can access the channel from India. Was it something that was temporary?

(I do want to support individual producers over corporate houses, but the whole PewDiePie vs. T-Series has a lot of racist and xenophobic overtones. This is what seems strange. Not all Indians like the T-Series brand, which has stood for cheap mass-market music and terrible quality cassettes once upon a time, but when the brand is vilified for being Indian in the comments sections, I feel revulsion towards the commenters.)

Re: Indian government asks Apple and Google to take down TikTok app

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post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

YouTube 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.

When did this happen? I can access the channel from India. Was it something that was temporary? (I do want to support individual producers over corporate houses, but the whole PewDiePie vs. T-Series has a lot of racist and xenophobic overtones. This is what seems strange. Not all Indians like the T-Series brand, which has stood for cheap mass-market music and terrible quality cassettes once upon a time, but when the…

The channel was not blocked. Just the two videos which were deemed to be defamatory. Pewdiepie can contest the decision.

Re: Indian government asks Apple and Google to take down TikTok app

#48
post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

YouTube 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.

Which 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.

I 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-PewDie...

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.

Re: Indian government asks Apple and Google to take down TikTok app

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post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

YouTube 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.

When did this happen? I can access the channel from India. Was it something that was temporary? (I do want to support individual producers over corporate houses, but the whole PewDiePie vs. T-Series has a lot of racist and xenophobic overtones. This is what seems strange. Not all Indians like the T-Series brand, which has stood for cheap mass-market music and terrible quality cassettes once upon a time, but when the…

Two of his videos are not available in India any more.

https://www.firstpost.com/tech/news-analysis/high-court-orde...

https://www.quora.com/Why-did-Delhi-High-Court-banned-PewDie...

Re: Indian government asks Apple and Google to take down TikTok app

#50
post #8

"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 expli…

downloaded it to check out the hype, pretty much all under age kids doing borderline stuff.

But no different than Youtube I guess

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