Pakistan Blocks Social Media App TikTok Over Indecency Complaint More By Asif Shahzad and Jibran Ahmad ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan on Thursday blocked the popular social media app TikTok after a court order over a complaint that it ran indecent content, a spokesman for the country's ...
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - 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 ...
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan has decided to lift a ban on popular social media app TikTok after the company vowed to block all accounts involved in spreading "obscenity and immorality", the country's telecom authority said on Monday.
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – 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. ...
This is not the first time social media has been targeted by Pakistani authorities. The country’s Interior Ministry blocked X (formerly Twitter) in February amid the national elections due to“national security concerns.”Civil rights activists have criticized the ban as a violation of freedom of...
social media to promote divisions and manipulate public opinion in the West. Like the US and the UK, Pakistan also has ethnic, sectarian and regional fault-lines that make it vulnerable to similar social media manipulation. It is very likely that intelligence agencies of countries hostile to ...
The move by the government to pass the bill comes nearly a year after Pakistan blockedthe X platformahead ofan electionthat the opposition party of Khan says was rigged. X is still blocked in the country, although many people usevirtual private networksto access it, like in other countries wi...
However, like China, Pakistan now requires registration by all users of virtual private networks (VPNs), software which allow users to pass their communications through a secure, private channel and change their online location. Pakistan has also blocked Musk’s X since February this year. Read ...
Pakistan –In 2010, the Pakistani government blocked social networks where the Prophet Muhammad’s pics were posted. In 2012, YouTube turned was closed down for the provocative video “Innocence of Muslims,” and in 2013 – Skype Whatsapp, Tango, and Viber had been banned for three months. ...
Pakistan blocked access to popular social media sites on Friday ahead of an expected crackdown on Islamists who have protested this week against France over caricatures of the prophet Muhammad in the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. Nayatel, a popular Islamabad-based internet service provider,...