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India bans 59 Chinese apps including TikTok and Helo
- bootcampwhere 6y agoThat TikTok is allowed is mind blowing.
- mehtology 6y agoIndian TV news anchors are jizzing over this
- panpanna 6y agoHow big was tiktok in India anyway?
- SpicyLemonZest 6y agoBig enough that American Tiktok users would regularly see Indian content.
- fceccon 6y agoThey have around 120 million monthly active users in India.
- mehtology 6y agoOver 200 million users
- kumarvvr 6y agoThis is a right move, in my view. Chinese infiltration takes a myriad of forms and data collection is one of the biggest. And those apps form a basis for click-of-the-button hacking. And ordinary users will find it very very difficult to determine if an app is Chinese made or not. And the Chinese govt. will have it's fingers in everyone of them, one way or the other. What I do worry now is that since China has been exposed, it will resort to even elaborate deceptive methods to hide itself and it's infiltration. China is not to be trusted.
- nix23 6y ago>China is not to be trusted. Same as the US i suppose.
- kumarvvr 6y agoMotives of US are different, largely self-serving and still have embers of morality and ethics. Chinese have no such niceties.
- nix23 6y ago>largely self-serving like China..or do you think the do it for the greater good? >morality and ethics Yes please tell that every single country the US attack d since the second world-war, oh and maybe your own countryman...hint NSA.
- kumarvvr 6y agoChina is beyond self-serving. It's mindset is confrontational, it's history is replete with instances of occupation of other peoples lands (Mongolia, Tibet, etc.). It is politically very unstable, so it has to periodically create crises, to whip up nationalism and keep it's population in control.
- nix23 6y agoDamn your right, the US is very stable. And the US made 10 times more regions unstable than China could ever do. If you exchange China to US, and Mongolia/Tibet to Middle East and South America your sentence matches perfectly too.
- yumraj 6y agoThey are not even in the same universe when it comes to comparing trustworthiness . It’s NK & China and then there is everyone else.
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- Ashwin277 6y agoIndia just pulled a China (e.g. China banning FB, Google, etc.)
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- akshatjagga 6y agoThe part that sucks is that this has given rise to shitty apps like Mitron on the basis of 'nationalism'. Atleast TikTok had a good UI/UX.