TikTok, also known as Douyin in China, it is a media app for creating and sharing short videos. Owned by Byte Dance, the media app was launched as Douyin in China in September 2016 and introduced to the overseas market as TikTok one year later.
It is a leading short video platform in Asia, the United States, and other parts of the world. In 2018, the application gained popularity and became the most downloaded app in the U.S. in October 2018.
TikTok is now a day's becoming the best entertaining thing and the social media app that grab lots of attention from the audience
As of 2018, it is available in over 150 markets, and in 75 languages. The application allows users to create short music videos of 3-15 seconds and short looping videos of 3-60 seconds. In July 2018, the app had more than 500 million users globally.
On 9 November 2017, TikTok's parent company, Byte Dance, spent up to $1 billion to purchase musical.ly, a startup based in Shanghai with an office in Santa Monica, California, owning a popular social media platform targeting the US teenage market.
Looking forward to leveraging the US digital platform's young user base, TikTok merged with musical.ly on August 2nd, 2018 to create a larger video community, with existing accounts and data consolidated into one app, keeping the title TikTok.
The supreme court will hear the petition and on the basis of that verdict ordering the Center to ban its download on pornographic material available on the tikTok of the Madras High Court. On Monday, the Supreme Court refused to hear the petition promptly. The Madras High Court had ordered the ban on its download of pornographic material available on the app.
A bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi had said that the petition will be heard at the right time. The Madras High Court directed the Center to ban the 'Tik Tok' app, referring to providing obscene and inappropriate content through April 3 this app.
The court had issued an interim order on the basis of that PIL, in which there was a demand for a ban on the tick-talk on the basis that it is allegedly the content that 'gives insult to culture and promote pornographic content'.
Apart from this, the court had said that the government also prevented the TikTok video from being shared on other social media platforms such as Facebook and Instagram. TikTok videos have always been complaining about obscene material.
The court had asked the government whether it would bring such a law that could save children from cybercrime and keep them away from it.
