Almost overnight, hundreds of millions in India suddenly needed to learn to live without an app once described as 'the last sunny corner of the internet.' Their experience could prove to be a harbinger for what's to come in the US.
San Francisco Jaya Lall first joined TikTok in early March to make a slideshow set to music for her friend's birthday. But the short-form video app took on new significance to her three weeks later when India went into a coronavirus lockdown, forcing her to close the preschool she runs in the country's capital, New Delhi.
Soon enough, she was posting as many as nine videos a day of herself dancing or lip-syncing to Hindi songs. She racked up nearly 8,000 followers in a matter of months."I never thought that I could sing, or dance, or make all these faces," Lall told CNN Business.Then, on June 29, India suddenly banned TikTok.
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