{"id":284461,"date":"2020-10-13T17:17:51","date_gmt":"2020-10-13T12:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/?p=284461"},"modified":"2020-10-13T17:29:09","modified_gmt":"2020-10-13T12:29:09","slug":"hareem-shah-believes-china-banned-tiktok-and-were-not-joking-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/hareem-shah-believes-china-banned-tiktok-and-were-not-joking-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Hareem Shah Believes China Banned Tiktok and We’re Not Joking Here"},"content":{"rendered":"

COID-19 and TikTok are probably the most searched keywords for 2020. It won’t be wrong to sum up the entire year with these two words because honestly, 2020 was a disaster and we are still recovering from it. Sigh!<\/p>\n

While COVID-19 created havoc all across the world for the entire year, TikTok has been in the news for mixed reasons – both good and bad.<\/p>\n

With not many avenues of self-expression left, millions of people resorted to Tiktok, the social media platform, to create and share videos and make the most of it during a pandemic. It doesn’t hurt that unlike its Facebook, Snapchat and Twitter, the Chinese-developed social media platform became popular with people from many backgrounds. It didn’t matter if you were a poor laborer or a social media influencer, both of them had the same shot at gaining a huge number of followers!<\/p>\n

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Photo courtesy: Oberlo<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

That was the beauty of TikTok. Or so it seems.<\/p>\n

TikTok Gets Banned in China?<\/h3>\n

The Chinese-owned Bytedance, the company behind TikTok, definitely made a killing through TikTok during the pandemic. However, it lost millions of its users due to a ban in certain countries like India and Pakistan.<\/p>\n

The app was at the verge of getting banned in USA as well and if you look at all of these countries, you’ll notice that the reason behind it is different for each country.<\/p>\n

For USA and India, political grandstanding and posturing against arch-rival China resulted in a ban. In the case of Pakistan, the app was alleged as spreading obscenity and immorality with no checks whatsoever.<\/p>\n

But did you know that China also banned its own creation? No? Apparently, a very famous TikTok star in Pakistan came up with this reason:<\/p>\n

“China banned TikTok because of national security issues.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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We had a similar reaction when we found out that this was an actual statement by none other than controversial TikTok sensation Hareem Shah.<\/p>\n

Let’s take a look at the video.<\/p>\n

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Tiktok \u201csensation\u201d Hareem Shah says China banned the application because of national security issues \ud83d\ude1d\ud83d\ude1d pic.twitter.com\/unS1eUH5Jm<\/a><\/p>\n

— Shahbaz Zahid (@shahbazzahid) October 12, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n