"ByteDance’s applications TikTok and Helo are hugely popular among India’s teen and pre-teen population, especially in smaller towns. Many Chinese apps, including TikTok, have come under fire not only in India but also in the US, the UK, Hong Kong and Indonesia for content that is often dangerously close to exposing children to nudity and possibly those who seek to coerce or groom underage users into committing explicit acts."<p>Saved you a click. The rest of the article is fluff.
Google has now blocked Tik Tok in India as a result [0].<p>[0] <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tiktok-india-court/google-blocks-chinese-app-tiktok-in-india-after-court-order-idUSKCN1RS1HT" rel="nofollow">https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tiktok-india-court/google...</a>
Lol, I clicked the link hoping to read the article, got bombarded with a dozen pops and what not.<p>Then I was like, "ah Indiatimes, my mistake my mistake. I should have checked the link"<p>(I'm from India and I avoid Indian media sites like a plague)
TikTok is one of a couple Chinese apps that have similar disturbing content in India.
<a href="https://factordaily.com/chinese-app-kwai-turns-a-blind-eye-to-videos-of-underage-girls-in-india/" rel="nofollow">https://factordaily.com/chinese-app-kwai-turns-a-blind-eye-t...</a>
AFAIK India is TikTok's second largest market after its native China.<p>There's big money at stake here. ByteDance, the company behind TikTok, is one of the most valuable private companies in the world: its last fundraising round was at a valuation of $75 billion USD.