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TikTok launches new safety feature ‘Filter Comments’ for Indian users

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Chinese media app, TikTok launched a new safety feature for its platform, which allows the users to filter self-defined words in Hindi and English from the comment section. The feature is named ‘Filter Comments’ and as its name suggests, it will automatically remove up to 30 user-defined words from the comments section of the post. TikTok also said that the users can also change the listed words when they want to what they want.

Following the Safer Internet Day (SID), on February 4, TikTok India brought the safety feature as a part of #SafeHumSafeInternet and #BetterMeBetterInternet campaigns. These campaigns were launched with TikTok’s partnership with the Cyber Peace Foundation to mark the Safer Internet Day (SID).

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Earlier, the users were able to decide who can comment and react on their videos or send them any messages. The app also had given users the option to see and choose who can download their content from the app. The users will get full control over their profile and who will be able to view it. All these setting came in the app’s existing privacy and safety setting. Seeing its huge Indian user base, TikTok said that it was ‘committed to maintaining a safe and positive in-app environment for its users in India’.

Recently, the app faced massive backlash and criticism from the political party Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh’s (RSS) economic wing Swadeshi Jagran Manch (SJM) demanding a ban on TikTok. Following suit, many people too demanded bans on China related apps and games like the ever-popular PUBG and TikTok to name a few. The plea of the ban heightened after the Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama attack where 40 CRPF soldiers were killed in a deadly suicide bomb attack.

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Tapping into the TikTok app and when searching for the #RSS tag, the results were around 64.5 million while #Ayodhya tag showed around 14.1 million views. Many such other searches had millions of results which shows just how popular the app is among Indian teenagers and youngsters.

To sum it all, TikTok has more than 54 million monthly Indian users with the numbers increasing constantly. It was launched back in 2016 with another name ‘Douyin’ by ByteDance, at first it was launched in China and in 2017 it was pushed out for the international markets.

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Aman Singh
Aman Singhhttps://www.gadgetbridge.com/
Aman Kumar Singh has a Masters in Journalism and Mass Communication. He is a journalist, a photographer, a writer, a gamer, a movie addict and has a love for reading (everything). It’s his love of reading that has brought him knowledge in various fields including technology and gadgets. Talking about which, he loves to tweak and play with gadgets, new and old. And when he finds time, if he finds time, he can be seen playing video games or taking a new gadget for a test run.
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