Indian government asks Apple and Google to take down TikTok app • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by mayankkaizen » Wed, Apr 17, 2019, 3:59 AM UTC

mromanuk wrote: post #10

swatkat7 wrote: 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…

I always read the comment section first, for this, actually I'm not going to read the article.

You did great job. Because the Times group in India is known for outrageous advertising and cheap journalism.

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

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Post by zavi » Wed, Apr 17, 2019, 5:13 AM UTC

hangonhn wrote: post #33

zavi wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Check 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.

Pornography is outright illegal in China so I imagine TikTok has that part nailed down.

You don't have to imagine, you can use it for 30 minutes yourself, it's wild west.

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

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Post by zavi » Wed, Apr 17, 2019, 5:14 AM UTC

icsllaf wrote: post #29

zavi wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Check 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.

What 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.

Instagram is significantly better at filtering out content featuring minors.

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

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Post by ignoramous » Wed, Apr 17, 2019, 5:57 AM UTC

wyqydsyq wrote: post #37

ignoramous wrote: post #26

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Telegram does have e2e encryption on "private" chats

Pirated content and porn are spread through groups which aren't e2e.

https://theoutline.com/post/4143/telegram-is-the-hot-new-sou...

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

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Post by vegiraghav » Wed, Apr 17, 2019, 6:13 AM UTC

yorwba wrote: post #17

robocat wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

TikTok'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.

They probably also have a pretty good nudity filter, considering that all pornography is illegal in China.

Search on youtube "tiktok indian videos". You will probably campaign to make the ban permanent.

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

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Post by ignoramous » Wed, Apr 17, 2019, 6:49 AM UTC

fourier_mode wrote: post #32

ignoramous wrote: post #26

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Telegram 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.

From 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'.

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

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Post by sbmthakur » Wed, Apr 17, 2019, 7:14 AM UTC

ignoramous wrote: post #26

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Please stop misleading people. The federal government neither banned beef nor consensual sex. Beef is a state subject and bans were implemented by respective state governments. Gay-sex was was decriminalized by the Supreme Court last year.

Individuals speaking against the PM are also not banned. Go to any social media and you will see hundreds of people speaking against him.

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

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Post by sbmthakur » Wed, Apr 17, 2019, 7:17 AM UTC

pujan28 wrote: post #18

But why would the government be in in involved in banning apps. Don't we have more important cases pending.

The government banned the app at the directive of the court.

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

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Post by kobiguru » Wed, Apr 17, 2019, 7:24 AM UTC

vegiraghav wrote: post #55

yorwba wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They probably also have a pretty good nudity filter, considering that all pornography is illegal in China.

Search on youtube "tiktok indian videos". You will probably campaign to make the ban permanent.

I agree

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

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Post by yorwba » Wed, Apr 17, 2019, 8:26 AM UTC

vegiraghav wrote: post #55

yorwba wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They probably also have a pretty good nudity filter, considering that all pornography is illegal in China.

Search on youtube "tiktok indian videos". You will probably campaign to make the ban permanent.

If the videos can be found on YouTube, the problem can't be with TikTok alone, surely.