Chinese apps banned: Ravi Shankar Prasad said Chinese apps are banned to protect data
New Delhi:
Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said India’s surprise decision to ban 59 Chinese apps after a violent confrontation between Indian and Chinese soldiers in eastern Ladakh was a “digital strike”.
“We banned Chinese apps to protect compatriots’ data; it was a digital strike,” Prasad said at a BJP rally in West Bengal today, the Press Trust news agency reported. of India.
“India is for peace, but if someone takes a dim view, we will give an appropriate response,” said the Minister of Law, Communications, Electronics and Information Technology, doing echoes a similar statement that Prime Minister Narendra Modi made last week on India and China. tension at the border.
Media section called on India to ban Chinese apps, including the popular TikTok, a “digital air strike” alluding to a bomb attack on a camp of the Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorist group in Balakot, Pakistan last February.
Besides TikTok, the other 58 apps with government-blocked Chinese links include WeChat and UC Browser. The Indian government MyGov’s TikTok account, which had 1.1 million followers, was deactivated.
Sina Weibo, China’s response to Twitter, deleted Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s account at the request of the Indian embassy. Two messages still could not be deleted because they included photos of Prime Minister Modi with Chinese President Xi Jinping. The Chinese app cannot easily delete photos of their president, people with first-hand knowledge of the matter told GalacticGaming.
