TikTok Faces Ban in US India Afghanistan Russia China North Korea Australia Iran Already Banned App

TikTok Ban in America: The troubles of short video platform TikTok are going to increase in America. In fact, US President Joe Biden has signed a bill in which Chinese owner ByteDance has been given 9 months to sell its stake in TikTok.

If ByteDance is unable to sell TikTok to a US buyer, then the use of TikTok will stop completely in America. But do you know that TikTok is already banned in many countries. Let us know which are such countries and what is the reason behind this.

In which countries is TikTok banned?

The first country in this list is India. In the year 2020, India had banned TikTok and 58 other Chinese apps citing security concerns. During that time, the number of people using TikTok was the highest in India.

The interesting thing is that the international version of TikTok is not allowed in China, although Chinese users can use the censored Chinese version “Douyin”. Names of other countries also include Afghanistan and Iran.

To protect its young generation from being 'misled', Taliban had banned PUBG as well as TikTok. At the same time, the government of Iran has also banned TikTok and other famous social media platforms.

The app is banned in these countries including North Korea

Talking about other countries, it includes North Korea, Indonesia, Uzbekistan, Russia, Australia, Netherlands, Canada, Taiwan and Belgium. In North Korea, TikTok is not among the websites or apps that people here can run. Apart from this, TikTok is banned in Uzbekistan due to violating security laws. TikTok was banned in Indonesia in October 2023 for violating e-commerce laws.

Russia had also banned all types of international content seen on social media in the year 2022, while TikTok was also banned from Australian federal government devices due to security and privacy concerns. Other countries are Kyrgyzstan, United Kingdom, New Zealand, Malta, France, Norway and Latvia. TikTok has also issued its response regarding this action taken by America.

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