{"id":17050,"date":"2020-10-09T18:49:12","date_gmt":"2020-10-09T13:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=17050"},"modified":"2020-10-09T18:50:08","modified_gmt":"2020-10-09T13:50:08","slug":"pakistan-bans-social-media-app-tiktok-for-immoral-and-indecent-content","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/17050","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan bans social media app TikTok for &#8216;immoral and indecent content&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"arthead row arthead-top\">\n<p class=\"artdec\">Pakistan&#8217;s Telecommunication Authority (PTA)\u00a0 blocked Chinese app TikTok on Friday after the company failed to fully comply with instructions for \u201cdevelopment of an effective mechanism for proactive moderation of unlawful online content.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"arthead row\">\n<div class=\"timsocial\">\n<div class=\"fromTime\">\n<p>The PTA said the step was taken after the authority received a number of complaints from different segments of the society against immoral and indecent content on the video-sharing application.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKeeping in view the complaints and nature of the content being consistently posted on TikTok, Authority issued a final notice to the application and gave considerable time to respond and comply with the Authority instructions for the development of an effective mechanism for proactive moderation of unlawful online content.&#8221;The PTA said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>It said that the application failed to fully comply with the instructions, therefore, directions were issued for blocking of TikTok application in the country.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan&#8217;s Telecommunication Authority (PTA)\u00a0 blocked Chinese app TikTok on Friday after the company failed to fully comply with instructions for \u201cdevelopment of an effective mechanism for proactive moderation of unlawful online content.&#8221; The PTA said the step was taken after the authority received a number of complaints from different segments of the society against immoral [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":17052,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1203,1357,32,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-entertainment","category-pakistan","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17050"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17053,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17050\/revisions\/17053"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}