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It has also been banned in at least 34 (out of 50) states on devices issued by state governments. [104] They generally do not prohibit civilians from having or using the app on personal devices. Some universities have banned TikTok on campus Wi-Fi and university-owned computers. [105] New York City has banned the app on city-owned devices. [106]
The company stated it banned praising Hamas and removed more than 775,000 videos and 14,000 livestreams. [ 42 ] [ 43 ] A December 2023 study by Rutgers University researchers working under the name Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI) found a "strong possibility that content on TikTok is either amplified or suppressed based on its ...
Internet censorship in Germany is practised directly and indirectly through various laws and court decisions. [1] German law provides for freedom of speech and press with several exceptions, including what The Guardian has called "some of the world's toughest laws around hate speech ". [ 2 ]
The debut arrived at a fraught moment for TikTok, which has come under threat of a ban by the White House, prompting China's ByteDance to weigh a sale of the app's U.S. operations to Microsoft ...
TikTok is in the crosshairs of authorities in the U.S., where new law threatens a nationwide ban unless its China-based parent ByteDance divests. TikTok is already banned in a handful of countries ...
TikTok's lawyers told the court that a ban would have a "staggering" impact on the free speech of its US users, and creators opposing the law also voiced concerns about its impact on their work.
However, this policy has been criticized by other politicians as being a blanket ban on legitimate Palestinian symbols and in their view, might not be legal under German constitutional law. [54] Germany's crackdown on pro-Palestinian speech and events has also impacted anti-war Jewish activists and vigils organized by Jewish groups. [55]
On Monday, TikTok and parent company ByteDance filed an emergency injunction, asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review legislation that would ban the social media app if ByteDance does not sell the ...