The app was still available on both Apple and Google platforms on Tuesday after the Tamil Nadu state court upheld the ban and it was not immediately clear if and when those companies would implement the court order. Parents scramble to keep up with short video app, TikTokOn April 3, the state court in southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu asked the federal government to ban TikTok, saying it encouraged pornography and made child users vulnerable to sexual predators. Chinese startup Bytedance urged India’s Supreme Court last week to quash the ban order, saying it would go against freedom of speech rights in India. The state court has requested written submissions from Bytedance in the case and will next hear it on April 24. In its Supreme Court filing, Bytedance argued that a “very minuscule” proportion of TikTok content was considered inappropriate or obscene.

Source: The Express Tribune April 16, 2019 14:26 UTC