The Supreme Court said today that the Madras HC's interim ban on TikTok will be lifted if the high court fails to decide on TikTok's plea against the ban by April 24, reports LiveLaw. The apex court's bench, consisting of CJI Ranjan Gogoi, Justices Deepak Gupta and Sanjiv Khanna, has refused to pass any order on TikTok's appeal. Senior Advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi appeared for TikTok. Last week, Google and Apple removed TikTok from their app stores in India at the direction of the Madras High Court. The court had ordered an interim ban on April 4th, and directed the Center to ban the downloads of the app, citing multiple reasons including the spread of pornography of the platform, impact on mental health, pranks, potential exposure of children's to sexual predators, and addiction to the platform. The court also declined TikTok's subsequent plea to overturn the ban; it has appointed senior advocate Arvind P Datar as amicus curiae to advice the court and assess TikTok’s ‘impact’. (See a copy of the SC's order here on IFF) TikTok's plea against the ban TikTok has claimed its like all other platforms and the selective action against TikTok violated equality before the law under Article 14 of the Constitution. TikTok's operator Bytedance Technology argued before the SC that: Its an intermediary and therefore protected under the Safe Harbor provisions of the IT Act. Only a minuscule percentage of videos on TikTok is flagged as inappropriate by users, and that the majority use it…
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