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On 17 March 2023, the New Zealand Parliamentary Service banned TikTok on devices connected to Parliament, citing cybersecurity concerns and advice from the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB), the country's signals intelligence agency. [131] [132] The GCSB's Minister, Andrew Little, had initially ruled out a ban on TikTok. [133]
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 is not allowed on devices issued by the Australian federal government. Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus said he made the decision after getting advice from the country’s intelligence and security agencies. BELGIUM. The National Security Council decided last month to indefinitely ban TikTok from devices owned or paid for by the federal ...
TikTok's content moderation policies have been criticized as non-transparent (especially Douyin's). Internal guidelines depending on the country against the promotion of violence, separatism, and "demonization of countries" could be used to prohibit content related to the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre, Falun Gong, Tibet, Taiwan, Chechnya, Northern Ireland, the Cambodian genocide ...
Here are all the countries that have banned or partially banned the app: Afghanistan. The Taliban government banned TikTok in April 2022, saying that the application was “misleading youths ...
China lashed out at the US for banning TikTok, describing the ban as an abuse of state power and suppressing firms from other countries. More than half of the 50 US states also have banned the app ...
TikTok's geographical use in 2019 has shown that 43% of new users were from India before the social platform was banned in the country. [221] But adults have also seen growth on TikTok. The share of U.S. adults who regularly get news from TikTok hit 14% in 2023.
Despite the bans, TikTok has still succeeded in becoming one of the most popular apps in the world, passing 2 billion active users in 2024. The national bans focus on either state censorship or ...