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TikTok has been banned on devices owned by the federal government, with some exceptions. It has also been banned in at least 34 (out of 50) states on devices issued by state governments. [89] They generally do not prohibit civilians from having or using the app on personal devices.
Here are the places that have partial or total bans on TikTok: AFGHANISTAN. TikTok has been banned since 2022, along with videogame PUBG, after the country's Taliban leadership decided to forbid...
Here are all the countries that have banned or partially banned the app: Afghanistan. The Taliban government banned TikTok in April 2022, saying that the application was “misleading youths...
In April 2024, US president Joe Biden signed into law the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, which is an effective ban or forced sale of TikTok from its parent company ByteDance.
While India’s abrupt decision shocked the country’s 200 million TikTok users, in the four years since, many have found other suitable alternatives. “The ban on Tiktok led to the creation of ...
- Map: Here are the states that have banned TikTok on government devicesaol.com
- House passes bill that could ban TikTok in the US, sending it to the Senateaol.com
- Why China's options in response to a TikTok ban are limitedaol.com
Countries have fined, banned, or attempted to restrict TikTok to protect children or out of national security concerns over possible user data collection by the Chinese government through ByteDance.
China lashed out at the US for banning TikTok, describing the ban as an abuse of state power and suppressing firms from other countries. More than half of the 50 US states also have banned the app ...
TikTok's vague censorship has permitted pro-Kremlin news but blocked foreign accounts and critics of the war, as a result "Russians are left with a frozen TikTok, dominated by pro-war content". In 2023, Enes Kanter Freedom was banned from TikTok and subsequently restored when TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew testified before the U.S. Congress.
Nepal became the latest country to ban video-sharing platform TikTok, saying the popular app was disrupting “social harmony.”
Citing national security issues the Indian Government banned CapCut and TikTok along with 58 other Chinese apps on 29 June 2020. The ban was made permanent in January 2021. In March 2021, the Indian government froze ByteDance's bank accounts in the country for alleged tax evasion, which ByteDance disputed. Ireland