Pakistan on Thursday for the second time lifted the ban on the application of TikTok after it was banned on the grounds of publishing “immoral” content.
The authorities took this decision after a new commitment made by the application to take measures to supervise this type of content.
“The application promised us that the contents would be sorted and supervised,” Jahanzeb Mehsud, a lawyer at the Pakistan Communications Agency, told AFP. Tik Tok applauded this decision.
Last month, a court in the northwestern city of Peshawar ordered the telecom regulator to ban the application due to the publication of videos that were described as contrary to values in this conservative Islamic country.
The Chinese-owned app, which is popular with teenagers in Pakistan and the world, agreed to moderate content after it was first banned for a short period in October.
An adviser to Prime Minister Imran Khan had accused the app of promoting “exploitation and commodification of” girls “and” imparting a sexual nature “on them.
Defenders of freedom of expression criticize the growing censorship of the authorities on the Internet, electronic media and paper newspapers.
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