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A branch of India’s ruling party renews calls for a ban on TikTok

on Jul 15, 2019 | 0 comments

By Charlotte McEleny

The Swadeshi Jagran Manch (SJM), the economic wing of the Indian ruling party Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, has called for video sharing site TikTok to be banned in India.

Calls for the Bytedance-owned platform and social network Helo to be banned has been ongoing in India, starting earlier this year when the government first called for bans because it believed it encouraged online predators. Not long after that, it tried to lean on Apple and Google to enforce a ban on the app.

The SJM is also claiming that a ban would help protect young people Read full story ›

Source: The Drum