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Another state is banning TikTok , the ByteDance - owned shortsighted video behemoth withover one billion active usersaround the globe .
Nepal , which has a population of near to 30 million mass , has shun TikTok . The decision , firstreportedby The New York Times , derive shortly after the Himalayan countryintroduceda rule require societal program to register with the local governance . TikTok ’s refusal to stamp down hatred content was affecting “ social concord , ” the report say , citing the Nepal authorities .
Specifically , Nepal ’s officials are worried about TikTok mental object that is “ stoking religious hate , fierceness and intimate maltreatment and has led to clashes offline , forcing curfew and the deployment of the police . ”
TechCrunch has reached out to ByteDance for comment .
TikTok ’s meteoric rise has been met with resistivity as country around the globe become progressively wary of China ’s influence . The app misplace a pregnant market in 2021 after India banned itamong dozens of Chinese internet services , include message jumbo WeChat , in the midst of escalate border tensions between the two country . In May , Montanabecame the first state in the U.S.to ban TikTok over concerns about Beijing ’s possible reach to its user info .
Many other country , include Canada and the U.K. , have imposed restrictions on TikTok to different degrees , mostly bar government officials from using the habit-forming , algorithm - drive short TV app .
TikTokhas long maintainedthat it does n’t partake in datum with the Chinese government . In the U.S. , its big securities industry , the appspent as much as $ 1.5 billionon “ Project Texas ” to store substance abuser data onshore .
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