In the meantime, the app was taken down from the Google Play Store and Apple App Store. On April 22, a Supreme Court bench consisting of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justices Deepak Gupta and Sanjiv Khanna ordered that the high court will hear and decide the prayer for vacation of the interim stay. It also argued that its platform was only an intermediary and can’t be held liable for actions of third-party users on the platform.Īlso read: No obscene videos: Madras HC lifts ban on TikTok with condition In its petition ByteDance, the company which owns TikTok, claimed that the ban would hurt free speech rights in the country. The court also asked the government to answer whether it will enact a statute like the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of the US to prevent the children from becoming cyber/online victims.įollowing this decision, TikTok approached the Supreme Court (SC) asking for the order to be set aside.

The bench had warned that if any video which violated its condition was found uploaded on the platform, it would be considered a contempt of court.Įarlier, the Madras High Court had ordered the central government to prohibit downloads of TikTok, saying the app was encouraging pornography and putting children at risk. On Wednesday, the bench of justices N Kirubakaran and S S Sundar, which heard the matter as per the orders of the Supreme Court, lifted the ban on the condition,that the platform should not be used to host obscene videos. However, despite the favourable verdict, the app is still not available for download on Google’s Play Store and Apple’s App Store. The Madras High Court’s Madurai bench earlier this week had lifted the ban on TikTok, which is a popular video creation and sharing app. TikTok Ban: Despite the ban being lifted by Madras High Court, TikTok is missing from Google Play Store and Apple App Store.

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