TikTok denies India comeback after reports of website going live

Tickets were not banned in India, TechCrunch confirmed on Friday that despite the short website access, which encouraged the media report of a possible return after more than five years.

A spokeswoman for Tickets told TechCrunch that the Chinese-owned social media platform was banned by the Government of India and the short-video platform was not accessible in the country.

“We did not recover access to Tickets in India, and continued to comply with the Government of India,” said a spokesperson in a statement emailed to TechCrunch.

A senior official of the IT Ministry of India also confirmed to TechCrunch on condition of anonymity that the government had “blocked or something” to lift the sanctions imposed under section 69A of the IT Act.

Earlier Friday, several local media outlets – including top Indian daily – Proposed That ticket was returning to India after his website was abbreviated Accessible From Some Indian usersThe Report Quoted post Social media from users loaded without VPN on social media – an abnormal development, this is that the Indian government contains Access to blocked To Tiktok in the late June of June 2021, when it is Forbidden Short-video platforms with dozens of other Chinese-Link applications in growing tensions between the two countries.

Short and sudden re-presence in India seems to be the result of a network-level wrong configuration. Similar incidents occurred in September 2022, when some Internet service suppliers unknowingly blocked the tickets and other limited sites for certain users when a patch was applied, a source familiar with the subject told TechCranch at that time.