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TikTok News July 2020

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Experts in Silicon Valley, 'Like India, America bans TIK TOK'

In December last year, the US military also prohibited the use of Tiktok by its soldiers. He called the app a security threat.

The Indian-American bourgeoisie says that no one in the global IT hub Silicon Valley has any regrets for singing a ban on the Chinese app TikTok by India, but the people there want the US to China Let's take similar steps against this popular app. Significantly, India had banned 59 apps of China, including Tiktok, on Monday. The move was taken by the Indian government amidst the ongoing deadlock between India and China over the actual control border in eastern Ladakh.

Venkatesh Shukla, former president of TEE Silicon Valley, said that TikTok quickly became popular and joined the list of effective social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook and Instagram in terms of viewership, demographic engagement and advertisements. TIE is a non-profit organization of entrepreneurial networking. Shukla said, "Given the competition in relation to advertisements, Silicon Valley is not sorry for TikTok." He said, "People here believe that America One should also ban this (Tiktok) because Facebook, Twitter and Instagram are also banned in China, so why Tiktok is available here. ''

 

Cuban-American music video director and producer Robbie Starbuck said the US should ban all China's video sharing apps. Starbuck said "ban all apps in China. This is a threat to national security that we cannot take." Business magazine "Forbes" said that these new restrictions would adversely affect TikTok's market. He wrote, "Last week Apple AAPL found TikTok secretly breaking into users' clipboards." Although Ticktock described it as a technical problem, it was widely criticized. "The US military had also banned the use of Tiktok by its troops in December last year. He called the app a security threat. The US Navy has also imposed similar restrictions. In February, TikTok agreed to pay $ 5.7 million to the US Federal Trade Commission to settle a case, including names, emails from children under the age of 13 on TikTok. He was accused of illegally collecting personal information like address, his location etc.

Five million downloads of TikTok's competitive Indian app 'Chingari'

The developers of the Chingari app said in a statement that amid boycott of Chinese products, users across the country are adopting the app made in India. The app is slowly gaining popularity.

Chinese app Tiktok's competitor Indian app Sparkar claimed on Monday that its app has had nearly five lakh downloads within 72 hours. Significantly, after the India-China conflict in the Galvan Valley of Ladakh, the boycott of Chinese app and products is going on across the country. The developers of the Spark app said in a statement that amid boycott of Chinese products, users across the country are adopting the app made in India. The app is slowly gaining popularity.

Let me tell you, on the last Monday, 20 Indian soldiers were killed in the struggle of Galvan Valley. Developers Vishwatma Nayak and Siddharth Gautam said in a statement, 'Our app has had nearly five lakh downloads in the last 72 hours. Spark's family is growing slowly. He claimed that the demand for the spark on the Google Play store remained the top. It has already overtaken the friends app. Friends is also an Indian version of short video app like Tiktok.