Bytedance Ltd has been allowed by the Madras High Court to restore access of its popular TikTok video-sharing app to users in one of the Chinese company’s most promising markets.

The court in its interim order on Wednesday lifted the ban on the app, which had been blocked by Google and Apple Inc. TikTok was banned on concerns the app was exposing children to pornography and other disturbing content. The court will come up with a final order after hearing all the parties.

TikTok will update their privacy protection norms according to the courts order and will address any complaint over content in three to 36 hours, said K Neelamegam, a lawyer representing the petitioner.

“If TikTok does not meet the conditions set by the court, contempt of court proceedings can be initiated against them,” he explained.

The victory for Chinas Bytedance, which was valued at $75 billion last year, also comes as a relief for other start-ups which hope to cash in on the worlds fastest-growing smartphone market. It also dispels perception that India was adopting a draconian oversight on such companies, somewhat similar to what firms face in China.

“The court has taken the right perspective,” said Faisal Kawoosa, founder and chief analyst at Gurugram-based researcher techARC. “Any other decision would have had an adverse impact on several other tech platforms,” he added.

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Bytedance told the court the ban denied the right to free speech for millions of app users in India and also caused a loss of about $600,000 in daily revenue for the company. Apple and Google had banned new downloads of the app to comply with the earlier court decision.

Beijing-based Bytedance, founded by Zhang Yiming, company has hired many of the Chinas brightest artificial intelligence experts to develop addictive apps for everything from jokes and news to music videos.

While were pleased that our efforts to fight against misuse of the platform has been recognized, the work is never done on our end, a spokesman for TikTok said in a statement in response to the judgement. We are committed to continuously enhancing our safety features as a testament to our ongoing commitment to our users in India.

The company has had more success outside of China than any previous Chinese Internet company -- and growth in overseas markets will help the company live up to high expectations when it decides to go public. In India, TikTok has attracted more than 120 million users thanks to a steady stream of videos with dance moves set to Bollywood music, slapstick humor and jokes in local languages.

After starting Bytedance in 2012, Zhangs first big hit was the news app Jinri Toutiao, or Todays Headlines, which became Chinas largest news site with more than 700 million users. He launched the short-video app Douyin in China in 2016 and created the international version, TikTok, the next year. Together, the apps have been installed more than a billion times.

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