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
mirror: https://outline.com/7Fz8wB
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
[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.)
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.
