Pakistan lifts ban on TikTok after it vows to moderate content
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- Published: October 9, 2020 17:34
New Delhi: Pakistan’s Telecommunication Authority blocks Chinese app TikTok after the company failed to fully comply with instructions for “development of an effective mechanism for proactive moderation of unlawful online content”, reports Pakistan’s Geo News
A formal announcement to this effect will be made in a few hours, the officials said.
Pakistan’s Telecommunication Authority blocks Chinese app TikTok “in view of a number of complaints from different segments of the society against immoral/indecent content on the video-sharing platform” https://t.co/3GWaqAbetK pic.twitter.com/DTzfOMd727
— ANI (@ANI) October 9, 2020
“We have been asking them repeatedly to put in place an effective mechanism for blocking immoral and indecent content,” one of the top officials directly involved in the decision told Reuters.
“The platform, however, hasn’t been able to fully satisfy Pakistani authorities. The decision has been taken to block TikTok for accessing in Pakistan,” he said.