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Pakistan on Friday banned the wildly popular video sharing app TikTok, as authorities press their clampdown on "immoral" content.Chinese-owned TikTok which has become a global sensation with its short video clips has a huge user base among young Pakistanis, with some attracting millions of followers.But it has come up ...

Source link www.rferl.org Pakistan's telecom regulator says it has blocked the Chinese-owned video app TikTok for failing to filter "immoral and indecent" content. The ban comes in view of "complaints from different segments of society,” the Pakistani Telecommunication Authority (PTA) said on October 9. TikTok had been warned to ...

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan has blocked online short-video sharing platform TikTok on the grounds of "immoral/indecent" content for viewing in the majority-Muslim nation.The state regulator said Friday that it had repeatedly instructed the platform to tighten its content monitoring to block access to the "unlawful" material."However, the application failed to ...

#Pakistan News Chinese app failed to adhere to warnings that demanded it block "immoral, obscene and vulgar" content, and decision to ban it can be reviewed if it puts in place mechanisms to moderate such content, authorities say. A youngster uses the social media app TikTok on his phone, ...

Pakistan's telecom watchdog on Friday banned the popular Chinese video-sharing app TikTok after getting numerous complaints against its "immoral" content. The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) said in a statement that a "number of complaints from different segments of the society" were made "against immoral/indecent content" on TikTok. The regulator ...

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan has blocked online short-video sharing platform TikTok on the grounds of "immoral/indecent" content for viewing in the majority-Muslim nation. The state regulator said Friday that it had repeatedly instructed the platform to tighten its content monitoring to block access to the "unlawful" material. "However, the application ...

Pakistan’s telecom regulator blocked TikTok on Friday for failing to filter out “immoral and indecent” content, another blow to the social media app that has come under increasing scrutiny as its popularity has surged across the globe.The ban comes in view of “complaints from different segments of the society ...

Chinese social media app blocked for failing to filter out ‘immoral and indecent’ content, Pakistan’s telecommunications authority says.Pakistan has banned Chinese social media app TikTok for failing to filter out “immoral and indecent” content, the country’s telecommunications authority said. The decision came after a number of complaints from different ...

Islamabad , October 9 (ANI): Pakistan on Friday became the latest country to impose a ban on TikTok, a Chinese short video making app, after receiving a "number of complaints from different segments of the society", the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) said in a press statement. According to the ...

The media watchdog in Pakistan has blocked TikTok, citing the video-sharing app’s failure to moderate “immoral and indecent” content. The ban came into effect immediately, with users reporting trouble accessing the service. The decision was announced by the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) on Friday.The watchdog said it had repeatedly ...