Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) announced strict measures against the social media platforms including TikTok and imposed a ban over the live-streaming app, Bigo.
The PTA, After receiving complaints about promotion of immoral, obscene, and vulgar content, While taking measures against the video-sharing social media platforms, issued a final warning to the Tik Tok and banned the live-streaming app, Bigo.
The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority blamed the apps for bringing negative effects on society in general and youth in particular, A press release released by the authority.
The press release reads that the PTA issued notices to both the social media platforms to moderate the socialization and content within the legal and moral limits, in accordance with the laws of the country, However, it termed their response as unsatisfactory, compelling the PTA to take punitive measures against them.
Pakistan Telecommunication Authority said that the Bigo was blocked immediately while Tik Tok has been issued a final warning to put in place a comprehensive mechanism to control obscenity in social media applications, A government official while commenting on the ban said that Tik Tok was promoting videos of young girls, who were unable to deal with the after-effects of a viral video.
He said that it was the responsibility of the government to safeguard its citizens, Further added that men were found commenting on the videos of young girls while footage of young girls were also leaked on the social media platform.
Press Release: Number of complaints had been received from different segments of the society against immoral, obscene & vulgar content on social media applications particularly Tik Tok and Bigo, & their extremely negative effects on the society in general & youth in particular. pic.twitter.com/Zow1EuLj4N — PTA (@PTAofficialpk) July 20, 2020
Press Release: Number of complaints had been received from different segments of the society against immoral, obscene & vulgar content on social media applications particularly Tik Tok and Bigo, & their extremely negative effects on the society in general & youth in particular. pic.twitter.com/Zow1EuLj4N
— PTA (@PTAofficialpk) July 20, 2020
Tik Tok should be banned in Pakistan. It did not give any positive impact on youth and society.
Undoubtedly Tiktok and similar apps should be banned as soon as possible but I strongly condemn the banning of pubg in Pakistan as it was one of the most powerful game (with over 600 million global downloads )that provided our eSport community a real chance of international recognition. PTA’s decision is damaging the emergence of competitive gaming talent in Pakistan!!
All these rumors are due to Bad apples. If we positively use TIK TOK to show our talent then its better to use. But few persons…. undoubtedly using it in wrong way. PTA should ban it.
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