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You must keep this browser tab open to continue hearing the stream. Depending on your internet connection, it may take up to a minute for you to begin hearing audio. (SOUNDBITE OF ROBOTAKI'S "MOONSIDE") Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.Click the 'Play' ( ) button in the blue bar on the top of our radio pages to begin streaming through your browser. Last note - Planet Money received money from TikTok last year as part of a #LearnOnTikTok initiative, but they have no input in our content. But that order is being challenged in court and has not been enforced. That is not a playbook we should borrow.ĪRONCZYK: A month after India banned the app, the Trump administration threatened a ban on TikTok here in the United States. And you've removed the global Internet entirely.ĪRONCZYK: Chander says this will kneecap the flow of global information.ĬHANDER: Because every country then says this about every other country.
Anupam Chander, a law professor at Georgetown who specializes in tech law, says that India is trying to build its own Internet, one that doesn't rely so heavily on China.ĪNUPAM CHANDER: The worry is that if you proceed down this route, what you do is you essentially say, you can only have apps that are run by domestic companies that are inside our country. This appears to be the real point of India's ban. This is really actually good that TikTok is banned because we are not using any - another country's app.ĪRONCZYK: There are dozens of made-in-India TikTok-like apps filling the void. Has there been anything good about the fact that TikTok has been banned or has it all been bad? She signed up for a TikTok-knockoff app called MX TakaTak. Two weeks ago, Kaur gave up waiting for TikTok to come back. You know, that was, like, the eighth month.ĪRONCZYK: Now, that pregnant lump is a 6-month-old baby boy, the same age as the ban. We were on a video call, so I held up my phone so she could see her final video. Do you want me to see if I can find them?ĪRONCZYK: I searched for her username and there she was. So even I don't have that video, even, in my phone.ĪRONCZYK: One of the odd things about banning a social media app that's used all over the world - while Balpreet Kaur can't see her own videos, the rest of us can.ĪRONCZYK: I mean, I can try. There was also my memories - my first video, which I made with my husband and I got famous. KAUR: I just did not save even in my phone. Balpreet Kaur lost income and her videos, which she hadn't backed up. That number has since gone up to over 200 apps. Last June, after a deadly border dispute with China, the government of India banned TikTok, along with 58 other Chinese apps. Yeah.ĪRONCZYK: TikTok is owned by ByteDance, which is based in Beijing. KAUR: Yeah, I made lots of money from TikTok, even (laughter). Mostly, she likes to joke around.īALPREET KAUR: With my husband and sometimes my friends also.ĪRONCZYK: Did you have a lot of followers?ĪRONCZYK: And were you able to make money off of TikTok? She's a dance teacher, so she belly dances in some of her videos. They're dancing.ĪRONCZYK: Balpreet Kaur is 30 years old, lives in New Delhi. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: (Non-English language spoken).ĪMANDA ARONCZYK, BYLINE: In this TikTok video, you see Balpreet Kaur with four of her girlfriends.
And now that the ban has been in effect for six months, Amanda Aronczyk, with our Planet Money podcast, looks at the fallout. Pakistan, Japan, Indonesia, Australia - all of their governments have debated it. isn't the only country that has considered banning TikTok.
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