Under Section 69A of the Information Technology Act of 2000, the game has been banned.
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The Indian government banned 54 applications, including Garena Free Fire, on February 14th because they have ties to China and pose a security risk. Garena Free Fire is based in Singapore, and the developer is not from China. Last year, it was one of the most downloaded games in India, and it had filled the void left by PUBG Mobile’s ban in September 2020. In India, the app had already been withdrawn from the Google Play Store and App Store. FREE FIRE BAN: KNOW OWNER NAME, ORIGIN COUNTRY, NET WORTH
Free Fire has over 184,700 ratings on the App Store and over 105,501,450 on Google Play, Garena’s popular battle royale title Free Fire is perhaps the most popular app among the new batch.
Under Section 69A of the Information Technology Act of 2000 The Ministry Of Home Affairs has restricted the application.
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But this is not the first time the government has put a ban on Chinese applications. In June 2020, similar ban was applied to 59 Chinese applications including PUBG Mobile, TikTok, Shareit, UC Browser, WeChat and many others.
Forest Li, the founder and CEO of Free Fire, was born in China but moved to Singapore and is today a Singapore resident. The game/application is created by SEA Ltd., a Singapore-based firm founded by Forest. The corporation also owns Shopee, an app that has been heavily criticised, with traders requesting that it be banned in India.
Forest Li has currently $1 billion of net worth as the shares of the company gone up by 45% in March 2019.
It is very much anticipated that an Indian version of Free Fire might come the same as the Indian version of PUBG Mobile (BGMI). It is highly likely that in a few months, the ban will be lifted or Free Fire India will get launched.
In its lawsuit, Krafton alleged that Garena has earned hundreds of millions of dollars from sales on these apps and that Apple and Google have also earned a substantial amount of revenue from their distribution of Free Fire and the more recent Free Fire Max. Krafton has said that it has asked Garena to “immediately stop,” after which Krafton had attempted to ask Apple and Google to stop distributing the games. Krafton had also asked YouTube to take down videos relating to Garena Free Fire and Garena Free Fire Max
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