Islamabad:
The common TikTok video-sharing app was blocked Wednesday in Pakistan for a fourth time since of “inappropriate content”, the country’s telecommunication regulator mentioned.
The Chinese-owned internet site has fought a series of legal battles with religious activists and authorities in the conservative Muslim nation, and was shut down for two days earlier this month on the order of a provincial court.
Freedom of speech advocates have lengthy criticised creeping government censorship and handle of Pakistan’s net and media.
“The action has been taken due to continuous presence of inappropriate content on the platform and its failure to take such content down,” the telecoms authority mentioned in a statement.
A regional TikTok representative did not promptly comment.
The app has a enormous fan base in Pakistan, exactly where lots of people today use it to market place and sell goods on the web.
But its critics in the deeply conservative Muslim nation say it promotes vulgarity and LGBTQ content.
In June, TikTok mentioned it had removed more than six million videos readily available to Pakistan customers in just 3 months following complaints from officials and ordinary customers.
Around 15 % of the videos removed had been taken down since of “adult nudity and sexual activities”, the firm mentioned.
Officials have previously asked YouTube to block content they deem objectionable, and numerous dating apps are prohibited.
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