Since then, more than 200 apps have been banned for operations in India by the IT Ministry.ĭon’t miss out on ET Prime stories! Get your daily dose of business updates on WhatsApp. In 2020, following a border skirmish with Chinese soldiers, India banned several apps including the popular short-video app TikTok. BGMI was one on a long list of apps and websites that have been banned by the Indian government for misuse of customer data and transferring them illegally across borders. The DoT, it said, forwarded the application to the IT ministry which replied that "no information" was available with it.Įarlier this year, the I T ministry had banned the popular game BattleGrounds Mobile India (BGMI) on concerns that data of Indians were being transferred abroad and mined. In a statement posted on Twitter on August 14, the Internet Freedom Foundation had said that it had, through a Right to Information application, asked the Department of Telecommunications the reasons behind the ban. In its tweets, VideoLan also said blocking the main site of the company would “just push users to weirder websites, and therefore towards shady versions of VLC”.Īdvocacy groups Internet Freedom Foundation and Free Software Foundation Tamil Nadu have demanded that the alleged ban by the ministry be lifted.ĮT could not reach the Free Software Foundation Tamil Nadu to understand the reasons behind its allegation.
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