The End Of The TikTok And Pakistan Moral Debates: Blockages

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JAKARTA - The TikTok short video application has another problem. This time the company was completely blocked from Pakistan due to lewd content on its platform .

Previously, a number of other online platforms had experienced the same thing, were deemed to have spread or managed immoral content. The online platforms in question are Tinder, Grindr, Tagged, Skout and SayHi.

According to Pakistan's telecommunications authority (PTA), TikTok has failed to comply with instructions by managing content that violates the law. The blocking move was also based on complaints about the "immoral" and dirty content on the video sharing platform .

TikTok often gets reprimands for the content on its platform . Companies are also given response time in order to comply with existing instructions and guidelines in the country.

The PTA once asked TikTok to limit 40 accounts during the first half of 2020. But the company limited only two of them.

Without discrimination. Pakistan immediately blocked TikTok because it was considered unable to compromise with its country.

Not long after that, the app immediately displays a blank screen when the user tries to open it. Pakistan admits they have close ties to China and says it is possible to reopen the blockade on TikTok.

"We are open to involvement and will review the decision if TikTok develops a mechanism to moderate content," said the PTA.

This previously led to petitions from several people in Pakistan because it caused anxiety for them. As is well known, PTA also gave a final warning to TikTok to remove pornographic and immoral content.

TikTok also responds to this, they hope to return to Pakistan, "TikTok is an inclusive platform built on a foundation of creative expression, and we hope to reach a conclusion that helps us serve a dynamic and creative online community in this country," said a spokesperson. TikTok.

For information, TikTok, which is owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, is the most downloaded application in the past year, after WhatsApp and Facebook and was downloaded nearly 39 million times in Pakistan.

Previously, the app had been banned from operating in India for violating guidelines. Meanwhile, in the United States (US), TikTok is claimed to have become a spy or spy for the Chinese government. So quoted from The Verge , Saturday, October 10.