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Pakistan forbids TikTok from using 'immoral and obscene' videos
Pakistan has banned the famous TikTok short video app, citing the proliferation of videos it found "immoral and indecent."
The move comes months after the South Asian country has raised serious questions about the quality of some of the videos on the ByteDance app and the effect they have had on society.
Pakistan Telecommunication Authority, the country's telecommunications authority, claimed in a statement on Friday evening that despite the warnings and months-long period, TikTok had failed to comply with the orders, and therefore issued instructions for blocking TikTok 's application in the country. The authority had received a number of complaints from different segments of society
Some people in Pakistan, a nation with around 75 million Internet users, told TechCrunch that the TikTok app and its website were already inaccessible to them.
TikTok has been told that the authority is open to engagement and will review its decision subject to a satisfactory TikTok process to moderate illegal content, the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority said in a statement.
The move from Pakistan comes months after its neighboring country, India, forbade TikTok, Bigo and 57 other apps produced by Chinese companies regarding cyber security concerns. Prior to the ban, TikTok listed India — where more than 200 million active monthly users had accumulated — as its largest market outside of China. Like India, TikTok is hugely popular in Pakistan, said Danish Khalid, an executive at Bykea, a Karachi-based ride-hailing startup.
And then there's the U.S., the largest revenue market for TikTok, where the future of the app remains unclear.
