TikTok, Helo, ShareIt, Camscanner hugely popular with Indian users; ban to hit China

The government has banned 59 Chinese apps, which includes popular ones like WeChat, ShareIt, UC Browser, etc, amid border tensions with China citing national security and public order. While the due processes of law will be followed in banning them by allowing the concerned companies to present their case before the ministry of electronics and information technology (Meity), the domestic market is huge for these Chinese players and ban will surely hit them hard.

Analysts said that bans lead to removal of the apps from the play stores of Google and Apple’s iOS system. On the Internet they are blocked by the Internet service providers based on the urls given by the government. However, here the banned apps keep resurfacing through different urls in an illegal manner and blocking them becomes a continuous exercise.