Border conflicts occurred in the Himalayas. Soon after the conflict, the Indian government announced a ban on 59 Chinese apps, saying that they secretly transmit user data to servers outside India, and TikTok is also among them.
According to data from the data company Sensor Tower, TikTok has been installed 610 million times and 165 million times in India and the United States, respectively.
Almost at the same time, there was an inconspicuous piece of news.
The European Parliament released a research report on the future development strategy of the digital economy. The report recommends that the EU economies establish an Internet ecological environment exclusively for Europe.
This points to a possible result. The European Union also wants to build a network firewall.
The joint report of We Are Social and Hootsuite shows that in 2019, there were 5.11 billion global mobile phone users, 4.39 billion Internet users, and 3.48 billion people were active on social media. Ten years ago, when the mobile Internet was not widely popularized, the number of Internet users was less than 800 million.
In ten years, the number of Internet users in the world has doubled by five times, but the trend of global disconnection from each other has become more obvious.
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The data in the above report shows that in 2019, the fastest growth in Internet users was in India, with an annual growth rate of more than 20% and a net increase of nearly 100 million users.
Along with the rapid growth of Internet users, India’s “disconnection” actions are also very frequent.
Indian media reports stated that terrorist activities and community tensions are the biggest reasons for the interruption of Internet services. Since 2014, there have been 357 cases of temporary closure of Internet services in India.
At the end of 2014, the Indian telecommunications department ordered operators to block 32 websites, including high-definition video podcasting website Vimeo, video sharing website and domain name query website archive.org. Arvind Gupta, an information technology executive of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), called this a counter-terrorism measure.