Tiktok has not been restored to India, TechCrunch has confirmed Friday, despite brief access to the site, which caused reports of a possible return after more than five years.
A Tiktok spokesman told TechCrunch that the ban on the social media platform belonging to the Indian government remains in place and the Short-Video platform is not accessible to the country.
“We have not restored access to Tiktok in India and continue to comply with the India government directive,” the spokesman said in a statement sent by email to TechCrunch.
A senior official at the India Ministry of Computer Science also confirmed to TechCrunch, provided that the government has not “unlocked or does anything” to recall the prohibition imposed under Article 69A of the IT law.
Earlier on Friday, many local media – including top Indian days – proposed that Tiktok made a return to India, since her website was for a while accessible to Some Indian users. The references reported publications Socials through users who claimed that the site was loaded without a VPN-an unusual development, as the Indian government has hindered access to Tiktok since the end of June 2020, when it banned the Short-Video platform along with dozens of other Chinese applications in the midst of increasing tensions.
Tiktok’s brief and sudden reappearance in India seems to be the result of a misconception at the network level. A similar incident happened in September 2022, when some internet service providers unlock Tiktok and other limited sites for some users, while applying a code update, a source familiar with the subject, he told Techcrunch at that time.
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