Indian government bans 59 Chinese apps including TikTok, ShareIt, UC Browser, WeChat, and Clash of Kings, citing national security and maintaining public order
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@tiktok_in
TikTok India
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@balajis
Balaji S. Srinivasan
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INDIA STANDS APP If you are building an Indian version of these apps, @naval and I want to see it. We have set up an email address at india.stands.app@protonmail.com Please send us links to your working prototypes to try out (not decks!) https://twitter.com/...
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@rsprasad
Ravi Shankar Prasad
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For safety, security, defence, sovereignty & integrity of India and to protect data & privacy of people of India the Government has banned 59 mobile apps. Jai Hind! 🇮🇳
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@kawaljit
Kawaljit Singh Bedi
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Tiktok taken off the store but not other apps (like Likee) means that developers are choosing to geo-restrict it in India rather than the AppStores removing them. Stores would have taken off all apps in one go if they were complying. https://twitter.com/...
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@pib_india
PIB India
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Government bans 59 mobile apps 📲 including #TikTok, likee, UC Browser, etc. This decision is a targeted move to ensure safety and sovereignty of Indian cyberspace & to safeguard interests of crores of Indian mobile/internet users 🔽Here's the list🔽 https://pib.gov.in/... https://t…
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@d_jaishankar
Dhruva Jaishankar
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A few interesting stats about Chinese apps in India: - TikTok: 611 million downloads in India (30% of total) - SHAREIt: 3rd most active app in India after WhatsApp and FB - UC Browser has 13% market share in India (2nd to Chrome at 75%) https://pib.gov.in/...
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@campuscodi
Catalin Cimpanu
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BREAKING: After clashes with the Chinese military on its northern border, India has banned today 59 Chinese apps List includes: -TikTok -Weibo -WeChat -UC Browser -Several Xiaomi apps -QQ apps -DU apps -Clash of Kings -more https://www.zdnet.com/... https://twitter.com/...
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@pranavdixit
@pranavdixit
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I'm told that @TikTok_IN pulled its apps from the Google Play Store and the Apple App Store itself, and was not taken off by Apple and Google overnight.
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@varunkrish
Varun Krishnan
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China has been acting smart for quite a while now. It wants access to global markets but won't reciprocate the same. Even with visas, most foreigners get visas <= 12 months duration max https://twitter.com/...
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@neha_mathews_
Neha Mathews
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For what it's worth, TikTok was the only social platform where we saw so many Indian queer kids living their best lives.
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@nixxin
Nikhil Pahwa
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1. This is the very first time, to my knowledge, that the Indian govt has actually ANNOUNCED a ban on apps under Section 69 of the IT Act. You know what's surprising? They don't NEED to announce it. Section 69 allows for secret govt blocking. (2/6)
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@nixxin
Nikhil Pahwa
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2. The usage of Section 69 to block links and sites is not new. Govt meets platforms to block online content under Section 69. Before the pandemic it was every 10 days, on an average. Now it is every 2 days (4/6) https://www.medianama.com/...
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@nixxin
Nikhil Pahwa
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Thus, this is a POLITICAL decision. It has been announced to send China a message. It should not be seen as anything but a political decision. No change in way these apps function over the past 3 months. If this is the right decision, why wasn't it taken a year ago? (3/6)
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@nixxin
Nikhil Pahwa
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India has banned 59 Chinese apps. The list is below. Thread with my comments on this follows 👇 (1/6) https://twitter.com/...
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@saketgokhale
Saket Gokhale
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A govt that installs Pegasus on the phones of activists & snoops on them wants to ban Chinese apps for “privacy concerns”. How do you see yourself in the mirror with a straight face, @rsprasad?
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@arvindgunasekar
Arvind Gunasekar
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Again no mention of China. https://twitter.com/...
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@kate_okeeffe
Kate O'Keeffe
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Wow: Following a border clash with China, India banned dozens of the biggest Chinese mobile apps, including TikTok, in what it called a step toward ensuring safety and sovereignty of the country's cyberspace https://www.wsj.com/...
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@pnjaban
Harmeet K. Dhillon
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Bold move. These apps are already banned from my devices. India bans dozens of Chinese mobile apps, including TikTok, following a recent border clash https://www.wsj.com/...
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@macaesbruno
Bruno Maes
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Response to Himalayan clash https://twitter.com/...
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@krazyfrog
@krazyfrog
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China can't even retaliate because there isn't a single Indian app worth installing.
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@alecstapp
@alecstapp
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The splinternet is happening https://twitter.com/...
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@jason
@jason
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The US needs to do the same, until all our Apps are allowed in China. TikTok here but no Twitter in China? How dumb are we? https://twitter.com/...
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@pib_india
PIB India
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Government Bans 59 mobile apps which are prejudicial to sovereignty and integrity of India, defence of India, security of state and public order #59Chinese (1/n) Read here: https://pib.gov.in/... https://twitter.com/...
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@neeleshmisra
Neelesh Misra
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Excellent decision by @PMOIndia @narendramodi ... Thank you! A graceful yet firm move against China. Hope the Govt takes many more cascading steps to peel off the visible, invisible and overpowering effect of Chinese goods as well as software-based stealth machinery in India. htt…
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@pib_india
PIB India
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Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre sent an exhaustive recommendation for blocking these malicious apps. @HMOIndia has also received many representations raising concerns from citizens regarding security of data and risk to privacy(3/n) Read: https://pib.gov.in/...
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@campuscodi
Catalin Cimpanu
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Curious how the New Delhi government is going to enforce this ban. If we learned something from Russia's Telegram ban is that you can't ban these things without a national-level firewall, like China's. https://twitter.com/...
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@sudhirchaudhary
Sudhir Chaudhary
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BIG BREAKING: 1st Big retaliation by Govt of India 🇮🇳 against China.Our forces will fight them on ground meanwhile India does the ‘Digital Air Strike’ on China. India bans 59 Chinese apps including TikTok.
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@shen_shiwei
@shen_shiwei
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Is #India so fragile that they need to ban 59 #Chinese Mobile Apps including #TikTok in the name of prejudice to sovereignty and integrity? “This event will pose a threat for Indian business environment for foreign investment.” An expert on India told me after he got this news. h…
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@ryanfduffy
Ryan
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If this holds, TikTok just lost its largest market of users https://twitter.com/...
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@chaiti
Chaiti Narula
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Big one!!! Outside of giving a befitting response to China we are saved by the onslaught of redundant videos! https://twitter.com/...