While the U.S. ban has been debated for months, India acted swiftly in June 2020 to block TikTok and nearly 60 other Chinese apps over national security concerns, stripping many creators of their main source of income and shattering a digital community.
At the time, India was TikTok’s biggest foreign market outside of China, with 200 million users.
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