In case you’ve been lucky enough to miss the torrent of videos, TikTok, formerly known as Musical.ly is an app which allows people to record and share short videos.

The app has come under the scope of India’s judiciary and not just because of the barrage of funny, ridiculous, embarrassing and sometimes plainly annoying videos shared on it.

Hello and welcome, I’m Vishnu Gopinath and this is the big story podcast. You can subscribe to The Quint’s podcasts on Spotify, Apple or Google Podcasts. So today, we’re looking at the Supreme Court hearing petitions to BAN the TikTok video sharing app. Why? And how will they ban an app when you can literally just download it on your phone?

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