 There is a massive debate going on in India at this time regarding banning TikTok, a video sharing social networking service app owned by Bite Dance, a Chinese company founded in 2012 by Zang Yemig. Just a few days back, one Indian TikToker's account was removed as he had posted an obnoxious and callous video showing him throwing a liquid, implying an acid on a girl's face who rebuffed his advances. Then there was another disgusting and insane video posted by someone else in a way encouraging rape. It displayed that TikToker and his friend, they were zipping up their washpants as the girl on the side screen was weeping and adjusting her clothes. TikTok was developed to create short dance, lip-sync, comedy and talent videos. TikTok was launched in markets outside China in 2017. The app is very popular in Asia, the United States and other parts of the world. TikTok became the most downloaded app in the United States in 2018. The first Chinese app to achieve this target or acclaim. As of 2018, it was available in over 150 markets and in 75 languages. In February 2019, TikTok hit 1 billion downloads globally along with its sister app known by some other name in China. Well, Indians alone spent 5.5 billion hours using TikTok in 2019 as per the analytics shared in a section of media. Today, many people are seeking ban on TikTok in India due to these nasty and horrible videos glorifying illegal acts. TikTok has simply responded by stating that TikTok is a platform that celebrates creativity and expression. They aim to create a positive in-app environment that brings people and communities together and requests all their users to basically respect this intent of TikTok. Last year, the Madras High Court, while hearing a PIL, had asked the government of India to ban this app, citing that it encouraged pornography and the court at that time also noted that children using the app were at risk of being targeted by sexual predators. Cursant there too, both Google and Apple removed TikTok from Google Play and the App Store. As the court refused to reconsider the ban, the company stated that they had removed over 6 million videos that violated their content policy and guidelines and subsequently the ban was lifted. When TikTok came back in action in India, even Indonesia had temporarily blocked TikTok App in 2018 amid public concern about illegal content such as pornography and blasphemy. The app was unblocked later as those videos were removed by TikTok. Legally speaking, Section 67 and 67A of the Information Technology Act categorically provide for the imprisonment for a term ranging between 3 to 7 years for anybody who publishes or transmits or causes to be published or transmitted in the electronic form. Any material which is less serious, meaning obnoxious, horrible, dirty, indecent or any material which appears to the prurient interest or contains sexually explicit act or conduct, further Section 69A of the Information Technology Act enables government to block any such apps. Legally speaking, these provisions are enough to prosecute those TikTokers and even the TikTok owner company that is ByteDance India Technology Private Limited. There are other Begabaran Penal provisions under the Indian Penal Code which can be invoked in these kinds of offenses but I think in the long run banning TikTok is not a very viable proposition legally as the best option would be to direct TikTok company, the founder company to be diligent and stringent with regard to their community and monitoring guidelines like Facebook and Twitter have it. They should have proactive helplines and user complaints forums to address these serious issues of such objectionable videos. I am sure Better Sense will prevail and TikTokers will also be more responsible and decent and sensitive while posting videos. That's all for today, see you next time with another video talk.