Wednesday 13 February 2019

TikTok is under fire in India over alleged cyberbullying


Most of us know TikTok – the app that allows users to create 15-second videos – as a place for silly (and sometimes cringy) videos created by teenagers. But, there’s another side to it filled with sexually explicit content and cyberbullying. Now, and the Indian state of Tamilnadu wants to ban the app while alleging that it causes “cultural degradation.” On Tuesday, the south Indian state’s IT minister, M Manikandan, said the state is planning to block TikTok and urge the country’s government to ban it as well. The minister was responding to a query from Thamimun Ansari, a state legislator,…

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http://bit.ly/2N5oohI Ivan Mehta February 13, 2019 at 03:00AM

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