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2 Law Essentials J. 1 (2021-2022)

handle is hein.journals/lwesj2 and id is 1 raw text is: GOOGLE AND TIKTOK VS. FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION Tanvi Jain* & Romit Jain** *Student, Hidayatullah National Law University, Raipur ** Student, Dharmashastra National Law University, Jabalpur Give me the liberty to know, to ar liberties INTRODUCTION TikTok app is a video creatii people around the globe. In app, but it soon began to face many petitions have been fik cruelty against animals. rape app on the Google Play Sto However, in overnight, the i giant Google who rescued T the rating and reviews on an of ratings by Google has inte were erased. sharing application, which has grabbed the attention of young FikTok has sired into the most downloaded Apple iOS video m due to its inappropriate content and social conduct. In India, inding the ban on such application which promotes misogyny, c. etc. Giving a decisive stroke to TikTok fate, ratings of the consistently fallen to 1.2 stars from 4.5 in a couple of days. started going upwards. As a matter of surprise, it was search deleting over 8 million negative rating. On the social media, cation show how good or bad that application is, the deletion with the freedom of expression of many of those whose ratings BACKGROUND OF THE CASE In India, Tiktok has accounted for many controversies in the past, from the petition in Madras high court in 2019 to ban TikTok for its pornographic content, too many human rights activists raising their voices against promoting animal cruelty, misogyny, child abuse, etc. But another wave of criticism has started against the Chinese application when the ratings of the app shown a sudden Law Essentials Journal (Volume 2, Issue 1, 2021 to conscience, above all -John Milton