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TikTok is a Chinese application so I wonder if there are other interests at play.

There's a lot of Chinese investment in the Indian tech sector and the Chinese phone manufacturers basically own the Indian smartphone market. I don't see why they'd have problems with Chinese apps, in particular.

Check out Weibo, there's already a Proud Han army furiously attributing this ban to an Indian-American conspiracy designed to stop China's rightful rise.

The reality is, if you are unable to prevent millions of your users from seeing videos of sexualized children you will get in trouble.

What separates Tik-Tok and other sites which also show millions of sexualized people like Instagram?

There obviously is a reason to be against China in this ban otherwise they'd ban a ton of other apps as well.

Instagram is significantly better at filtering out content featuring minors.

Pornography is outright illegal in China so I imagine TikTok has that part nailed down.

You don't have to imagine, you can use it for 30 minutes yourself, it's wild west.

I did, no porn or even casual nudity to be found. It’s squeaky clean. Search terms that might return anything like nudity or violence return 0 results and I checked to see if I was in restricted mode or not. It’s the same as Snapchat, just as clean, just as boring.

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