The Pakistan Telecommunications Authority (PTA) has finally shut down the short video sharing application TikTak in the country for not removing inappropriate content.
According to a statement issued by PTA, Tik Tak failed to remove inappropriate and controversial content from the application within the given period, which is why Tik Tak is being shut down in the country.
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According to the PTA, the Chinese application management was repeatedly instructed to remove controversial and inappropriate content, but the app management failed to do so.
In view of number of complaints from different segments of the society against immoral/indecent content on the video sharing application TikTok, pic.twitter.com/Vmp5umixeL
— PTA (@PTAofficialpk) October 9, 2020
According to the Pakistan Telecommunications Authority, Tik Tak was banned from October 9 due to non-removal of controversial and inappropriate content.
It may be recalled that PTA had been issuing orders to the Tik Tak administration for the last few months to remove controversial and inappropriate content and on one occasion PTA had also shut down some apps.
The PTA had in July this year issued a “final warning” to the TuckTack administration for inappropriate content. In addition, the PTA has issued notices to the app management several times in the past few months to remove pornographic videos.
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Following the issuance of notices by the PTA, Tik Tak claimed that it had removed dozens of controversial videos from Pakistan while working with the government and content developers to produce ethical and good content.
In addition, a petition was also filed in the Lahore High Court by an ordinary citizen regarding the closure of Tik Tak.
The petition, filed in July this year, said more than 10 users of the application had died in the country.
It was also said that the video sharing application is becoming a means of spreading pornography for ratings and fame on social media.
The petition also mentions an incident in July in which a girl was gang-raped by a group of friends on Tik Tak.
The recent exploitation of female tick tockers, the objectification & sexualization of young girls on tik tok was causing huge pain to the parents & was proving detrimental for our society .Tik Tok is being given final warning to work on their filters stopping obscene content pic.twitter.com/bjAHPZCk2J
— Dr Arslan Khalid (@arslankhalid_m) July 20, 2020
The petition called Tik Tak an obscene and anti-religious app.
Tik Tak has been banned in Pakistan at a time when it was banned in neighboring India a few weeks ago and is facing severe sanctions in the United States as well.
The United States has also called Tik Tak a threat to national security and threatened Tik Tak to sell its US assets to a US company or work with a US company in the US, otherwise it Will be closed