Kolkata: TikTok fans looking for proxies to circumvent the ban | Kolkata News

KOLKATA: A surgical strike in the digital world has destroyed a Chinese badet, but millions of Internet users are far from euphoric. Thursday, "How to download TikTok after the ban" was the most popular Google search.

Apple and Google have removed from the App Store and Play Store TikTok, a Chinese-made smartphone video app highly valued by young adults, after the Madurai bench of the High Court of Madras forbade it to remain the order. The IT department then asked the tech giants to remove the application from their stores.

TikTok allows users to create short videos with various special effects such as background music, sounds and graphics and share them on social networks. But many felt that it was to help badgraphy and expose children to badual predatory behavior.

The app is not available on the Play Store and the App Store since Wednesday night, although many people still can download it through third-party platforms. However, downloading content from unverified sources is dangerous.

Shocked TikTok fans expressed dismay. "When badgraphy and other inappropriate content are available so easily, it is futile to ban an application such as TikTok," said Gunjan Agarwal, a third-year student at the Bhawanipur Education Society College. "If an app is used to peddle inappropriate content, the government should regulate it and put in place a mechanism to remove that," said technician Arnab Basu.

According to an international marketing intelligence agency for mobile app stores, TikTok has been downloaded 32.3 million times in India last year, 25 times more than in 2017. This number represents 27% of global downloads of the application. More than 30 million people have downloaded it in the first three months of 2019.

People watching TikTok videos on the subway or on air-conditioned buses are common in Kolkata. Technical specialists attributed TikTok's success to its user-friendly nature and special effects. TikTok has also created virtual celebrities from ordinary people.

"TiKTok has democratized the content. Many people who feel like singing or playing well record and upload their videos to TikTok so that millions of people can watch them, "said Animesh Gupta, head of social media at InstaFame, an IT company.

Existing TikTok users do not have to worry. They can continue to film and share videos. "It's weird and undemocratic. Why should some people have the privilege of using the application and others be deprived of it? "S is interviewed Trina Majumdar, expert in social media.