The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has officially blocked the social media app ‘TikTok’ following a surge of reports that the app features indecent and immoral content.
An official release from the PTA states that the management behind TikTok failed to respond to its final notice to address and take action on the content uploaded to the social media platform.
“Keeping in view the complaints and nature of the content being consistently posted on TikTok, PTA issued a final notice to the application and gave considerable time to respond and comply with the Authority instructions for development of effective mechanism for proactive moderation of unlawful online content,” read the announcement.
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