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Updated: 08/08/2021 05:21 IS
Islamabad [Pakistan] August 8 (ANI): Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Saturday called on the Pakistani Telecommunications Authority to review the ongoing ban on the Chinese use of Tik Tok.
IHC chief judge Athar Minallah wrote that the telecommunications authority had failed to justify blocking the video-sharing app, Geo News reported.
“The TikTok app is a source of income for the underprivileged,” says the judgment and called on the telecom regulation to submit a report to the court on August 23.
Telecom regulator announced it had blocked Byte Dance’s video sharing platform in the country due to “inappropriate content” being uploaded to the site, Geo News reported.
Pakistan had again blocked access to the Chinese app TikTok because it had not removed “inappropriate content”.
“Given the relevant provisions of the Electronic Crime Prevention Act of 2016, the PTA has blocked access to the TikTok app and website in the country,”
The Pakistani Telecommunications Authority (PTA) announced in a tweet. Previously, the Pakistani government and courts banned the Chinese app several times for inappropriate content.
The first time TikTok was banned in Pakistan was in October 2020. However, the ban was lifted 10 days later after the company assured it would freeze accounts that “spread profanity”.
According to the app, more than 6 million videos have been removed from TikTok in Pakistan in the past three months. (ANI)
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