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But TikTok actually faced an even bigger exodus of users in 2020, when India banned the app. At the time, India was TikTok’s biggest foreign market outside of China, with 200 million users .
India has a score of 39 on a scale from 0 (most free) to 100 (least free), which places India 20 out of the 47 countries worldwide that were included in the 2012 report. India ranked 14 out of 37 countries in the 2011 report. India ranks third out of the eleven countries in Asia included in the 2012 report.
In 1989, The import [50] of Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses was banned in India for its purported attacks on Islam. [51] India lifted the Ban in May 2011. In 1990, Understanding Islam through Hadis by Ram Swarup was banned. [52] In the same year, the Hindi translation of the book was banned, and in March 1991 the English original became ...
In June 2020, after a violent clash on the India-China border that left at least 20 Indian soldiers dead, the government in New Delhi suddenly banned TikTok and several other well-known Chinese apps.
[26] [27] The ban was challenged in the Supreme Court of India. The court agreed on 3 February to hear petition by N. Ram, Mahua Moitra and Prashant Bhushan. [a] [29] [30] Right-wing Hindu-nationalist groups also petitioned the Supreme Court to ban the BBC altogether; the court described the petition as "absolutely meritless", and rejected it. [17]
India was TikTok’s fastest growing user base before the ban, which cut off a vital source of income for creators there. The stakes are even higher in the United States, where the app has more ...
The CMS Media Lab, a nonpartisanism subsidiary of the research organisation CMS stated in its report that Modi, the current prime minister, [a] received 33.21% of the primetime news coverage during his last election campaign while the competitors' political parties such as Aam Aadmi Party led by Arvind Kejriwal received 10.31% media coverage ...
In India, the ban in 2020 was swift. TikTok and other companies were given time to respond to questions on privacy and security, and by January 2021, it became a permanent ban. But the situation ...