TikTok bans viral ‘milk crate’ challenge on its platform

<p><span style&equals;"font-size&colon; 14pt">Popular social media platform&comma; TikTok owned by Chinese company ByteDance has banned the &&num;8221&semi; milk crate&&num;8221&semi; challenge because so many people were getting hurt&period; <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;thedailypage&period;ng&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2021&sol;08&sol;images-5&period;webp"><img class&equals;"aligncenter wp-image-9956 size-full" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;thedailypage&period;ng&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2021&sol;08&sol;images-5&period;webp" alt&equals;"Milk crate challenge" width&equals;"1000" height&equals;"1000" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-size&colon; 14pt">Recently&comma; viral videos of people stacking milk crates in a pyramid and trying to climb them like stairs were all over TikTok and now has been banned by the app that gave life to it&period; TikTok has also deleted search results for the hashtag&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-size&colon; 14pt">TikTok explains that the &&num;8216&semi;milk crate&&num;8217&semi; challenge was communicating dangerous activities&comma; as many  who tried the challenge were falling down from the crates&period; <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-size&colon; 14pt">According to the spokesperson for TikTok&colon;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-size&colon; 14pt">&&num;8220&semi;TikTok prohibits contents that promotes or glorifies dangerous acts&comma; and we remove videos and redirect searches to our Community Guidelines  to discourage such content&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-size&colon; 14pt">&&num;8220&semi;We encourage everyone to exercise caution in their behavior whether online or off&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;