TikTok banned in Pakistan: Here's what happened
Oct 09, 2020, 09:25 PM ISTAfter India and US, now Pakistan has announced a ban on TikTok citing the circulation of videos that were considered “immoral and indecent”.
After India and US, now Pakistan has announced a ban on TikTok citing the circulation of videos that were considered “immoral and indecent”.
On August 6, Trump had issued the executive order banning US transactions via WeChat. To fight for the legal rights of all WeChat users in the country, USWUA, an NGO, sued the administration for the ban
TikTok parent Bytedance has issued cash bonuses to employees in India, despite a ban remains in place for the Chinese short video making app TikTok.
Here are the 5 micro-content platforms that will not make you miss upon your daily updates and entertainment post-TikTok-ban.
Chingari is an Indian short video-sharing app that acts as an alternative to TikTok. Apart from India, the app is steadily increasing its users in countries like the UAE, the US, Kuwait, Singapore, Saudi Arabia, Vietnam, and others
US President Donald Trump and some politicians have repeatedly expressed speculation that TikTok poses a national security threat to the country, though no evidence has been provided to support the allegations.
President Donald Trump said Saturday he’s given his “blessing” to a proposed deal that would see the popular video-sharing app TikTok partner with Oracle and Walmart and form a U.S. company.
According to a report by Reuters, Washington will order Apple, Google and other companies to remove the Chinese apps TikTok and Wechat from their platforms.
Chinese apps TikTok and WeChat will be banned in the United States from September 20 (Sunday), according to AFP. The move to ban these two Chinese apps have come after India had banned TikTok and over 200 other Chinese apps over security concerns.
US President Donald Trump has said he is looking into American major Oracle's reported bid for the Chinese-owned video-sharing app TikTok and want to ensure there is no compromise on national security before approving the deal.
China's ByteDance has decided to place the headquarters of its popular video platform app TikTok in the US in order to escape President Donald Trump's ban, official media reported on Wednesday.
In addition to several TikTok alternatives seen in India post the app's ban, YouTube has introduced its version of the short videos for users in the country
After TikTok was banned in India in June, along with 58 other Chinese apps, the Donald Trump administration in the US increased pressure on the ByteDance-owned platform to sell its US operations by mid-September or face a ban.
Microsoft has confirmed that ByteDance has rejected its offer to take over TikTok's US operations. Oracle is the only known remaining bidder.
Chinese short-video-making app TikTok has partnered with luxury designers like Saint Laurent, JW Anderson, and Louis Vuitton to host its own digital fashion month at a time when the Covid-19 pandemic has disrupted the plans of major brands.
In an executive order last month, Trump had set September 15 as the deadline for the Chinese app to either change its ownership to an American company or shut it down.
Dailyhunt on Wednesday launched its short-video app Josh, adding to the growing number of made in India applications aiming to fill the void created by India's ban on TikTok in June.
Technology transfer curbs and the rise of rival platforms could pose as major roadblocks in the way of TikTok India's acquisition, the Mint quoted two industry experts as saying.
The executive order was issued "for political reasons rather than because of an 'unusual and extraordinary threat' to the United States, which is a condition for the President to exercise his authority" under the IEEPA, TikTok noted.
TikTok has more than 700 million monthly active users (MAUs) globally including over 100 million in the US, according to statistics revealed by the short video sharing platform in its lawsuit against the Donald Trump administration.
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