Saved you a click. The rest of the article is fluff.
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.
But no different than Youtube I guess
[0] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tiktok-india-court/google...
(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.)
https://www.firstpost.com/tech/news-analysis/high-court-orde...
https://www.quora.com/Why-did-Delhi-High-Court-banned-PewDie...
>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.
mirror: https://outline.com/7Fz8wB
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)
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.
The reality is, if you are unable to prevent millions of your users from seeing videos of sexualized children you will get in trouble.
There obviously is a reason to be against China in this ban otherwise they'd ban a ton of other apps as well.
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
