Free Fire and 53 other ‘Chinese’ apps banned: Full list of banned apps
The Ministry of Home Affairs has recommended a ban on 54 Chinese mobile applications, including the popular game Free Fire
The Ministry of Home Affairs has recommended a ban on 54 Chinese mobile applications, including the popular game Free Fire. Interestingly, Free Fire is Singapore-based and the developer is not from China. Its game was one of the most downloaded games in India last year, and had taken up the space created by PUBG Mobile after it was banned in September 2020. The app was already removed from the Google Play Store and App Store in India,
In 2020, the government had also banned TikTok and other popular short video apps from China. According to PTI, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology will formally issue a notification banning the operations of these apps in India.
When TikTok becomes, banned on jun 29, 2020, the listing covered around fifty-nine apps in overall. Other popular apps on the list were (the fashion website and app), Xiaomi Mi Community, Clash of Kings, Weibo, Like, etc.
These apps under Section 69A of the Information Technology Act, which states that the government has the “Power to issue directions for interception or monitoring or decryption of any information through any computer resource.” This is usually when the government is “satisfied that it is necessary or expedient to do in the interest of the sovereignty or integrity of India, defense of India, security of the State, friendly relations with foreign States or public order or for preventing incitement to the commission of any cognizable offense relating to above or for investigation of any offense.”
For TikTok and PUBG, the government had said that these were being banned “in view of the emergent nature of threats” as “they are engaged in activities which are prejudicial to sovereignty and integrity of India, defense of India, security of the state and public order.” PUBG was banned in September 2020, along with 117 other apps. A third listing of banned apps came out in November 2020, which covered 43 apps. AliExpress was the most prominent name in that particular list
The list of 32 blocked Chinese apps is provided below:
1 Beauty Camera: Sweet Selfie HD
2 Beauty Camera – Selfie Camera
3 Equalizer – Bass Booster & Volume EQ & Virtualized,
4 Music Player-Music. Mp3 Player
5 Equalizer & Bass Booster – Music Volume EQ
6 Music Plus – MP3 Player
7 Equalizer Pro – Volume Booster & Bass Booster
8 Video Player Media All Format
9 Music Player – Equalizer & MP3
10 Volume Booster – Loud Speaker & Sound Booster
11 Music Player – MP3 Player
12 Rise of Kingdoms: Lost Crusade
13 Parallel Space Lite 32 Support
14 Viva Video Editor – Snack Video Maker with Music
15 Onmyoji Chess
16 Onmyoji Arena
17 Dual Space Lite – Multiple Accounts & Clone App
18 Dual Space Pro – Multiple Accounts & App Cloner
19 Dual Space – 32Bit Support
20 Dual Space – 64Bit Support
21 Dual Space Pro – 32Bit Support
22 Conquer Online – MMORPG Game
23 MP3 Cutter – Ringtone Maker & Audio Cutter
24 Voice Recorder & Voice Changer
25 Barcode Scanner – QR Code Scan
26 EVE Echoes
27 Extraordinary Ones
28 Stick Fight: The Game Mobile
29 Twilight Pioneers
30 Real: Go Live. Make Friends
31 Real Lite -video to live!
32 Free Fire – Illuminate
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