Demands to ban Tik-Tok raised again, more than 10,000 tweets in 10 hours,

Demands to ban Tik-Tok raised again, more than 10,000 tweets in 10 hours,

There has been a demand for a legal ban
In November 2019, Heena Darvesh filed a PIL in the Mumbai High Court stating that this app is causing crimes and deaths. Significantly, TikTok was banned by the Madras High Court last year, which was later lifted. On March 12, Republican Senator Josh Howley in the US introduced a bill in the Senate to ban all federal government devices from downloading and using the Chinese social media app TikTok because it could be a risk to the US government’s data security. His video has been trending on Facebook, seen by 1.3 million people and shared more than 140,000 times.

TikTok has seen nearly 1.5 billion downloads globally and the US market with 37.6 million downloads is at third sport, after India and China.

The US Army has not banned personnel from using TikTok on their personal phones but they have been recommended that service members use caution if they received random or unfamiliar text messages.

Last month, the US Navy and Defense Department told its members not to download the app and delete it from government-issued devices if it was already installed.

According to The Verge, Beijing-based company ByteDance has been under scrutiny from the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) after lawmakers demanded an investigation to see whether the Chinese government can collect users' data or control the content that is shared.

To recall, TikTok became the first Chinese-owned app to reach first place in the US Apple App Store last November.

Its servers are not based in China but rather in countries where the app is available.