TikTok ban likely to shadow FDI plans of tech firms, says IAMAI
20 April 2019 12:07 PM GMT
Wihtout naming TikTok, the IAMAI said it was responding to the recent ban by the MeiTY on the order of a high court
- Reacting sharply to the nationwide ban on short video messaging app TikTok, industry body Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) said that the ban might affect future plans of companies to invest in India.
- In a statement it said the move would impede FDI in digital if intermediaries were to be banned quite arbitrarily by the courts in the country.
- The association was of the view that such bans dilutes the safe harbour provisions currently contained in the IT Act and its Rules and make it impossible for them to operate in the country.
- It further said that in this particular instance, the complainant should have approached the government for redressal first before approaching the courts and the court should have ideally asked the platform to remove the "offending content" than ban the entire app.
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