Chennai/New Delhi: The Madras High Court has asked the Centre to ban the Chinese video mobile application TikTok, saying it ‘encourages pornography’ and is spoiling the future of youths and minds of children.
The court said inappropriate content was being provided by the TikTok app, owned by Chinese tech company ByteDance, and the government had a social responsibility to stop it.
Hearing a petition filed by an advocate, the Madurai Bench of the High Court Wednesday also issued an interim order to the Central government banning downloading of the app in India and restricted the media from telecasting videos taken using the app.
Earlier, Tamil Nadu’s Information Technology Minister M Manikandan had said that the state would write to the Central government seeking a ban on the app in India.