「On 3 April 2019, the Madras High Court while hearing a PIL had asked the Government of India to ban the app, citing that it “encourages pornography". The court also noted that children using the app were at risk of being targeted by sexual predators. The court further asked broadcast media not to telecast any of those videos from the app. The spokesperson for TikTok stated that they were abiding by local laws and were awaiting the copy of the court order before they take action. On 17 April, both Google and Apple removed TikTok from Google Play and the App Store. As the court refused to reconsider the ban, the company stated that they had removed over 6 million videos that violated their content policy and guidelines. On 25 April 2019, the ban was lifted after a court in Tamil Nadu reversed its order of prohibiting downloads of the app from the App Store and Google Play, following a plea from TikTok developer Bytedance Technology」
抖音在印度是因為「可能鼓勵兒童色情問題」被法院禁止,但僅22天就被解禁。
今年11/14美國華爾街日報才報導「抖音在印度驚人暴紅,下載量是美國的四倍」("TikTok—Target of U.S. Suspicion—Is a Smash Hit in India")
“In a free market economy, the firm is constantly influenced by the wider market in which it operates. The product market reveals information critical to a firm’s survival, such as what not to produce — when the sale price for a product will not cover the cost of its production; the factor market informs the cost of substitution between factors of production. While there is some room for price-seeking, firms cannot greatly alter the market price for their inputs. To increase its chance of survival, a firm can innovate and supply new and better products to consumers, or it can improve efficiency and produce the same goods at a lower cost than its competitors. Thus, the market competition allows profitable firms to grow and causes unprofitable ones to wither, forcing them to produce something different. At the same time, firms in a market economy adjust the wages paid to their employees in accord with their productivity; employees will lose their jobs if performance is unsatisfactory. This gives firms a powerful incentive with which to motivate their employees, whose productivity, unlike that of other factors of production, is open to the influence of the rate of compensation. This internal pressure encourages workers to make their best efforts, and whether those are good enough is judge only by consumers. The performance of the firm is decided by the ultimate test of market survival. ~from “How China Became Capitalist" by R. Coase"
大師手筆,短短幾句話就說明市場機制運作,也暗暗點出競爭之下為何企業可以累積財富。 同時,也指出「工資」的市場機制,打臉一堆蠢到以為工運、工會可以保障勞工權益的覺青。尤其「the ultimate test of market survival」一詞,是價格理論的精髓。