Owned by ByteDance, a seven-year-old Chinese Tech venture which was valued at $78 billion in November last year, TikTok had 88.6 million downloads from India during the first quarter of this year.
It바카라s strange when there seems to be consensus on a ban. As candidate after candidate flouts the model code of conduct in a closely-contested poll, the Supreme Court will instead hear TikTok바카라s plea against the ban on Monday, April 22. This after the Madras High Court asked for the Centre to ban the application and the media to not carry any content created on the platform on April 3.
There. This writer has taken a dig at TikTok too. It바카라s not that difficult with a name like TikTok in the first place. It is also to be noted that TikTok is no underdog is any scenario. Owned by ByteDance, a seven-year-old Chinese Tech venture which was valued at $78 billion in November last year, the application had 88.6 million downloads from India during the first quarter of this year.
TikTok is a video-creation platform where users post content which ranges between 10 seconds and a minute with its videos going viral and creating a sub-culture of its own with celebrities and the works.
The numbers tell a story. Take Facebook, for example. According to Sensor Tower바카라s data, close to 700 million users downloaded Facebook on Android in Q4 2018, while close to 140 million downloads were registered on Apple바카라s IOS. Statista says that in Q2 2018, the Android to IOS ratio was at 88 to 11.9, across the world. Data from India says 90% of India is on Android while only 2.8% is on IOS. The data reinforces a simple point: expensive Apple products have lesser downloads because people don바카라t buy them as much, even more so in India.
Our 바카라underdog바카라 thrives on predominantly Chinese-made Android platforms. Data says that 99% of TikTok바카라s downloads are on Google바카라s Playstore, far outstripping its IOS numbers. There is an argument to be made that a certain population is excluding the rest. 바카라I don바카라t want to impute motives but having said that, there is a thing of paternalism here in a sense that 바카라we know better바카라,바카라 Amit Doshi, founder of IVM Podcasts, tells Outlook.
TikTok was banned after the Tamil Nadu IT Minister M Manikandan said it is 바카라degrading culture and encouraging pornography바카라. Doshi says that while the problems cited for banning the application exist on most social media platforms, TikTok has been singled out.
바카라I make no excuses for child pornography but that is a different topic. The same problem occurs on different platforms like YouTube and Facebook, Twitter, anything. The reason given for the ban doesn바카라t make sense to me because everything done on TikTok can be done on YouTube, FB and Twitter. Those however are mediums primarily consumed by a certain educated upper class. TikTok is a medium where the primary user is a member of the underclass in India. 바카라People like us바카라 look at TikTok with a degree of voyeurism, it is not 바카라our medium바카라 the way Twitter and Facebook are. I feel it바카라s sad that we are banning these mediums when such behaviour exists on most platforms,바카라 he says.
There바카라s a way to quantify what Doshi calls paternalism too. A recent IANS piece reported that news application InShorts surveyed 30,000 folks in Tier-1 and Tier-2 cities with 80% in favour of banning the application. Consensus seems to be built from the top. Why not ask what Tier-3 thinks, or even large swathes of the country which are not 바카라tiered바카라.
Content on TikTok has also been a convenient way to take a dig at the platform itself. A stream of memes and videos flooded other social networks, seemingly suggesting that the ban was justified because of the stuff Indians were up to on the platform.
In a statement, the Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) called for an 바카라alternative to bans바카라 saying that 바카라the ban is a disproportionate reaction to the need to afford protection to children on the internet. Not only does it go against the fundamental right to freedom of speech and expression under Article 19(1)(a), it also violates the principle laid down by the Shreya Singhal case that protects intermediaries from liability and requires individualised content take downs pursuant to court and executive orders.바카라
The 바카라disproportionate reaction바카라 the IFF mentions can cause a slippery slope. Mobile-gaming platform PUBG has been in the cross-hairs recently. However, the likes of Facebook and Twitter will not be affected, especially since our chowkidars get to protect us there.