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Tik Tok app
The Pakistani government announced a ban on the Chinese video app TikTok, due to the app’s owner not fully complying with instructions to develop an effective mechanism to control illegal content.
Pakistan’s Communications Commission said in a statement on Friday that it took the action after receiving complaints about “unethical and inappropriate” content on the video-sharing platform.
Harem Shah, one of the Pakistani celebrities on TikTok, said on Saturday that the government was misleading by banning a popular Chinese app for sharing video recordings.
Shah, who has more than 4 million followers on TikTok alone, said the reasons given for the ban were “flimsy.”
“It is a very good app for entertainment,” he said at a news conference in Karachi. Show the talents of the youth of Pakistan to the whole world.
In my opinion, this talk of being a platform for “inappropriate / unethical content” is totally unfounded.
He said that if the decision to ban the app is made for other reasons, then the government headed by Prime Minister Imran Khan should clarify this.
He added that such actions could lead to a further violation of creative freedoms in the country.
“Using obscenity as a reason to ban Tik Tok does not carry any weight,” he said. Tell people the real reason for your satisfaction. “
The video sharing app, owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, is the third most downloaded app in the past year after WhatsApp and Facebook and has been downloaded almost 39 million times in Pakistan.
