TikTok formally filed a complaint with the Beijing Intellectual Property Court on February 2 to sue Tencent's monopoly, requesting the court to order Tencent to stop the monopoly and compensate TikTok with RMB 90 million. On the 7th, Beijing Intellectual Property Court formally accepted Douyin's case against Tencent's monopoly.
TikTok previously filed a complaint in the Beijing Intellectual Property Court to sue Tencent for its monopolistic behavior. Allegations that WeChat and QQ, under Tencent's platforms, restrict users from sharing content from Douyin, which constitutes "monopolistic behavior that abuses market dominance and excludes and restricts competition." Request the court to order Tencent to immediately stop the blockade and compensate Douyin for economic losses of RMB 90 million.
Douyin issued a statement stating that "user data should not become Tencent's private property, and also detailed Tencent's many "unfair competition regulations" involving monopoly, which cannot be denied by Tencent.
Tencent also accused Douyin of illegally obtaining the personal information of WeChat users through various unfair competition methods and undermining platform rules.
Since the State Council of China recently issued the "Anti-Monopoly Guidelines of the Anti-Monopoly Committee of the State Council on Platform Economy", the dispute between Douyin and Tencent is China's first anti-monopoly lawsuit between online platforms.
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