Social media app Tiktok on Thursday sought to dismiss a plea seeking to ban the app and told the Bombay High Court that any objectionable content was filtered online under the Information Technology Act.
Senior counsel Milind Sathe, appearing for TikTok, sought to dismiss a public interest litigation seeking a ban on the app while claiming its unfiltered content was harmful to the country's youth.
"There is a procedure laid down in Section 69-A of the Information Technology Act that states that if a person has any complaints about online content then he or she can approach the nodal officer and seek to remove it," Sathe said.
A division bench of Acting Chief Justice B P Dharmadhikari and Justice N R Borkar directed the petitioner's lawyer to answer the point raised by the firm and posted the matter after three weeks for further hearing. City-based woman Heena Darvesh filed the petition in November 2019, claiming that the TikTok app has resulted in several criminal offences and deaths.
TikTok is an app that allows users to create, upload and share short lip-synced comedies or music videos. China-based developer ByteDance launched the app in 2017. In her petition Darvesh claimed that a similar plea had been filed at the Madras High Court last year, seeking to ban the app for its sexual content.
"The Mumbai Police registered two cases against a few persons in July 2019 for posting videos on TikTok inciting violence and promoting enmity among religious groups," the petition said.
Darvesh also contended in her plea that she was apprehensive that the app would affect even her three children. Read |What Kejriwal should have done
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