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Home / News / India News / In garb of entertainment, TikTok promotes rape, domestic violence
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    In garb of entertainment, TikTok promotes rape, domestic violence

    Shalini Ojha
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    Shalini Ojha
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    Last updated on May 19, 2020, 07:26 pm
    In garb of entertainment, TikTok promotes rape, domestic violence
  • From being a harmless app meant for leisure, TikTok has turned into a problematic platform, one that brazenly promotes rape, domestic violence, acid attacks, and strokes religious tensions.

    Hundreds of Twitter users, and the National Commission for Women's Chief Rekha Sharma, want this app banned in India.

    The demand may seem obtuse to many, but the videos on the platform show it's not unfair.

  • In this article
    TikTok's downloads reached 2 billion worldwide last month TikTok brings to attention talented people who were nameless earlier But the problematic videos are plenty Clips suggesting rape remain unchecked on the platform Trigger warning: The kind of content TikTok allows is worrisome TikTok user threatened revenge after Tabrez Ansari's lynching Trigger warning: Animal cruelty too finds a place in TikTok TikTok should be banned, said Sharma Madras HC had banned TikTok, lifted it later
  • App

    TikTok's downloads reached 2 billion worldwide last month

  • Founded by Chinese entrepreneur Zhang Yiming, TikTok launched worldwide in August 2018, after merging with Musical.ly.

    The company is owned by ByteDance, which Zhang founded in 2012.

    Used to create short lip-sync videos, the app rose to global prominence.

    The app has been downloaded over 2 billion times by April, 2020. Of it, more than 611 million downloads come from India.

  • Talent

    TikTok brings to attention talented people who were nameless earlier

    TikTok brings to attention talented people who were nameless earlier
  • The reach of the app is humongous. It also sheds limelight on talented persons, who would have otherwise remained unnoticed.

    Just a few days ago, internet users learned of the dancing skills of one Arman Rathod. As he grooved to Bollywood superstar Hrithik Roshan's hit song You Are My Sonia, he left everyone impressed.

    There are many like Arman whom TikTok made famous.

  • Problem

    But the problematic videos are plenty

  • As it turns out, talent search is only one aspect of TikTok, the other one is filthy and sick.

    While the Twitter trend #BanTikTok may not succeed in achieving its goal, it has shed light on the utterly disgusting videos the platform hosts.

    The app clearly has no content policy. One such video, justifying acid attack by "celebrity" Faisal Siddiqui was deleted after outrage.

  • Videos

    Clips suggesting rape remain unchecked on the platform

  • The list of abusive videos is unfortunately long. In another video, Faisal, whose account was deleted after Sharma's intervention, was seen hurting his supposed wife.

    Yet another video, showed two underage boys suggesting they raped a girl because she rejected their advances. This rape video format was used by countless users.

    In one video, a jilted lover was shown shooting a woman dead.

  • Twitter Post

    Trigger warning: The kind of content TikTok allows is worrisome

  • @NCWIndia please take immediate action on this viral video #BanTikTokInIndia #tiktokexposed pic.twitter.com/oc4mFV0hDh

    — Akash Deshmukh 29 (@29Deshmukh) May 19, 2020
  • Communal tensions

    TikTok user threatened revenge after Tabrez Ansari's lynching

    TikTok user threatened revenge after Tabrez Ansari's lynching
  • If gender-related violence wasn't enough, the platform is also a breeding ground for communal tensions.

    In 2019, after a youth named Tabrez Ansari was mercilessly lynched in Jharkhand, over suspicion of theft, TikToker Faisal Shaikh alias Faisu warned of "consequences".

    Faisu, who has over 4 crore followers, said when Ansari's kids seek "revenge" they shouldn't be labeled as terrorists. The video was deleted later.

  • Twitter Post

    Trigger warning: Animal cruelty too finds a place in TikTok

  • More disturbing inhumane garbage from TikTok. #BanTikTokInIndia #FaizalSiddiqui pic.twitter.com/7I3fcXEANB

    — MP (@mpopat) May 18, 2020
  • Demand

    TikTok should be banned, said Sharma

    TikTok should be banned, said Sharma
  • Notably, the outrage over TikTok reflected in its rating. In less than a week, the app was downrated from 4.6 to 2 on Google Play Store. TikTok Lite's ratings stood at 1.1.

    Further, Sharma said that she will be writing to Centre seeking a ban.

    Not only are youngsters being pushed towards unproductive life, but they only live for a few followers, she argued.

  • Ban

    Madras HC had banned TikTok, lifted it later

    Madras HC had banned TikTok, lifted it later
  • Just last year, the Madras High Court banned TikTok explaining that the app wasn't regulating pornographic content. Eventually, the ban was lifted.

    TikTok said it lost nearly $500,000 per day owing to the ban. 250 jobs were also at risk.

    More than a year later, the content on the platform confirms that TikTok neither took the ban seriously nor is worried about regulations.

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