Why is Tiktok Banned in India

According to cnbc in 2020 before tiktok got banned in india

The number of active Tiktok users in India has reached 200 million users and the apps have been downloaded 661 million times.This figure even beats the number of tiktok users from their home country, namely China with 196.6 million and America with 165 million downloads.

So it can be ascertained that almost the majority of the population in India uses this application until on June 29, 2020 the Indian government decided to block 59 applications including TikTok.

According to a CNA insider before tiktok was banned from india, tiktok itself became a platform for rural people in india to become famous, but many abused this fame negatively by creating content that committed violations such as excessive pranks and spreading hoaxes, and the trend is very increasing in India especially in rural areas.

and the external reason for the heating up of relations between India and China, which was compounded by an incident that occurred on the border between India and China which resulted in the death of 20 Indian soldiers.

For this reason, negative sentiments about China have arisen to the point of calling for a boycott of Chinese products.

And finally, what about the fate of tiktok celebrities in India?

Reported from interview south china morning post with Shivani Kapila (a tiktok celebrity with 10m followers) "My income from tiktok reaches 3000usd per month. I have also collaborated with big brands such as coca cola, maybelline. But suddenly the whole career I built just disappeared before my eyes."

 

But it turns out that not all Indians feel sad about this. in the interview Asian boss Together with the Indians, they think that those who are disappointed with this blocking decision are, of course, only people who have income from tiktok. Ordinary TikTok users accept the blocking decision is the right decision because they know TikTok is from China and China has a  negative sentiment in India.