TikTok ban: Short-video app's popularity dips amid growing call for ban
Short-video sharing platform TikTok, owned by Chinese firm
ByteDance, is facing a huge backlash in India after an internet war broke out
between its influencers and YouTube content
creators. The app's rating on Google Play Store reduced to 1.3 stars on May 20
from more than 4.5 stars only a few days earlier. Moreover, there has been a
growing demand for a ban on the platform in India owing to alleged distribution
of insensitive and hateful content on TikTok.
Recently,
the National Commission for Women (NCW) wrote to the video-sharing social
networking service TikTok over
a video in which one of its users allegedly glorified acid attack and crime
against women. The video has been taken down since, and the user's account has
been suspended.
Rekha
Sharma, the chairperson of the NCW said several videos of women being abused
had been shared on the platform. Expressing her views on Twitter, she said that
the platform should be banned as the app was pushing youngsters towards
unproductive life where they were living only for a few followers.
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