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India has banned 59 Chinese apps. The list is below.

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1. This is the very first time, to my knowledge, that the Indian govt has actually ANNOUNCED a ban on apps under Section 69 of the IT Act. You know what's surprising? They don't NEED to announce it. Section 69 allows for secret govt blocking. (2/6)
Thus, this is a POLITICAL decision. It has been announced to send China a message. It should not be seen as anything but a political decision. No change in way these apps function over the past 3 months. If this is the right decision, why wasn't it taken a year ago? (3/6)
2. The usage of Section 69 to block links and sites is not new. Govt meets platforms to block online content under Section 69. Before the pandemic it was every 10 days, on an average. Now it is every 2 days (4/6)
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3. Big question: what does blocking mean? Does it mean that the apps (from the 59) you've downloaded will stop functioning? Or does it mean that apps will be blocked at an ISP level? Or will the app store and play store stop downloads? (5/6)
Remember: Tiktok was banned once. In that case, downloads were stopped from the Google Play Store: medianama.com/2019/04/223-wh… (6/6)
Was just on Mirror Now about this. Going live on NDTV now
Correction. As Raman Chima pointed out, the secrecy is embedded in the rules, and not the law.
views from a bunch of really smart tech policy folks for a more wholesome perspective
Update: TikTok has been blocked, depending on your ISP.

Photo #1: TikTok was working on Excitel broadband
Photo #2: rebooted phone, and it isn't working.

Try it and let me know re your ISP and city?
If you want to know how a blocking order under Section 69 a of the IT Act works, @Aditi_muses spoke with Torsha Sarkar and @sarvjeetmoond

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The demand for banning tiktok in India is not new.

Read this by @imsoumyarendra:
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Thread: I attended an Zoom call (also live-streamed on FB) on Sunday, on invitation from BJP's Vinit Goenka, who has filed a case in the SC against Twitter.

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The battle between Twitter and Trump is escalating, and this might not end well for the rest of us. Trump's executive order on social media achieves little, but it's more of a threat that it could change the way the Internet works.

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Thread: The Chinese Consultate in India has reacted to India's restriction on investments from states with which it has land borders (i.e. China, because that's where much of the investment in India has come from).
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