We all know that apps are being banned nowadays in many countries and in India it is a day to day burden and government is trying to solve this issue by implementing new laws and recently PUBG was banned in India and similarly, Twitter was also on the verge of getting banned but later it accepted to follow the Indian rules and similarly many china apps are getting removed from many countries and we will look into how they remove china apps from which country.

Battlegrounds Mobile India is the Indian PUBG

As we all know pubg was banned in India and the South Korean game developer company Krafton has made pubg return in India. And this Indian version of PUBG is called Battlegrounds Mobile India. And this game is only for Indians. This game will give us a battleground experience on our mobile and the game has its own tournaments and other events especially for Battlegrounds Mobile India and this game also has the 100 players battle royale game mode and it comes with new security and privacy policy and this is to prevent data leakage and all data collected are in accordance with Indian laws. While talking about krafton’s modifications in this game it is really an initiative because they didn’t stop after getting banned they found a way and they are back with the Indian version and got approval from the government and now it has become a friendly esports powerhouse and this is a boost to India’s future esports gaming economy and improvement.

Is twitter complying the new rules of the Ministry

Everyone has a question that is twitter banned in India, but according to the latest pieces of information and guidelines in the Information Technology act by the Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology, every social media company should follow the guideline or they will be banned in India. There are officers appointed for monitoring and removing objectionable content from these company websites. And in this guideline, all social media sites have to give a monthly report in which they will have to reveal how they handled user complaints in India. And the government stated that if these companies like Twitter fail to follow the new guidelines then the government will initiate criminal actions and they will also lose their status and protection and the new IT rules are also applicable for all digital OTT platforms.

Twitter has appointed an interim chief compliance officer to follow the new Indian IT rules, these  IT rules came into force by the end of May and are looking to regulate the social media content for more legal validity and this allows them to remove any unwanted posts if it is violating the terms and new officers were appointed.

This rule was created when the social media platforms did share fake posts during the pandemic period. Twitter also posted some posts relating to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s and the central government and the government asked them to remove the controversial post relating to farmers’ protests. The Information Technology ministry has previously talked about Twitter and talked about all the bad things of Twitter in public and told the social media companies to follow the new rules.

China apps and the countries that banned them

On 2nd September the Indian government banned 118 applications which include most of the Chinese app and it also included the famous apps like we chat messenger and pubg game and Tiktok which was at the peak of fame in India was also banned and these Chinese apps had more users than what the Indian app has and the downloads were beyond expectations in India alone. The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology said under it under section 69A of the Information Technology Act it says about the Procedure and Safeguards for Blocking of Access of Information by Public, and to remove digital threats they decided to block these 118 mobile apps which are suspected to be involved in activities affecting the sovereignty and integrity of India and also it is considered because of spying in India’s defence system, state security and public order.

Some of the famous banned apps are as follows:-

• TikTok

• PUBG Mobile

• Helo 

• SHAREit

• Xender

• LiveMe

• UCBrowser 

• Bigo Live

• Vigo Video

• BeautyPlus

• CamScanner

• Clash of Kings

• Mobile Legends

• ClubFactory

• Shein

• Romwe

• AppLock

• Club Factory

• VMate

• Game of Sultans

• Mafia City

• Battle of Empires

These apps were banned doesn’t mean these are the only apps in the play store there are thousands of apps that are not safe so it is recommended to check the usage and not to allow unwanted permissions to these apps. And it is recommended not to download these apps from unknown sources due to the possibility of threat.

Jennifer Wilson

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