{"id":14389,"date":"2020-10-19T10:17:04","date_gmt":"2020-10-19T17:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/?p=14389"},"modified":"2020-10-19T10:17:04","modified_gmt":"2020-10-19T17:17:04","slug":"pakistan-bans-tiktok-calls-videos-immoral-and-indecent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/pakistan-bans-tiktok-calls-videos-immoral-and-indecent\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan bans TikTok; calls videos &#8220;immoral and indecent&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pakistan Telecommunications Authority (PTA) has officially banned TikTok for providing access to \u201cimmoral and indecent\u201d videos \u2013 though it remains to be seen how permanent this ban will be. TikTok has recently had similar troubles in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/starting-sunday-american-users-will-need-a-tiktok-and-wechat-vpn\/\">United States<\/a>; however, it is becoming increasingly clear that these software bans being executed or threatened by governments around the world are merely chess moves to try and get tech companies to acquiesce to government demands. The PTA has passed on instrutions to Pakistan\u2019s internet service providers (ISPs) instructing them to block the popular social media app.<\/p>\n<p>The news was shared officially on the PTA Twitter:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">In  view of number of complaints from different segments of the society against immoral\/indecent content on the video sharing application TikTok, <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Vmp5umixeL\">pic.twitter.com\/Vmp5umixeL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 PTA (@PTAofficialpk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PTAofficialpk\/status\/1314536530325762048?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 9, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Back in July, Pakistan blocked a similar video app called <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2020\/07\/21\/pakistan-issues-final-warning-to-tiktok-and-blocks-bigo-app-over-immoral-obscene-and-vulgar-content\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bigo Live<\/a> while issuing a formal final warning to ByteDance that TikTok could very well be next due to the \u201cimmoral, obscene, and vulgar content\u201d found on the platform. The PTA has issued temporary and permanent blocks on other social media platforms such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/twitter-facebook-youtube-currently-blocked-millions-pakistan\/\">Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook<\/a> in the past for varying reasons. During such instances where Pakistani internet users want to access websites or apps that the PTA has blocked, VPN use has proliferated despite confusing official guidance from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/the-coming-pakistan-vpn-ban-pta-sets-deadline-for-vpn-users-to-register-by-june-30th\/\">PTA which requires businesses to register their VPN IP addresses<\/a>, but doesn\u2019t yet apply to individuals.<\/p>\n<h2>Official release: PTA Blocks TikTok in Pakistan<\/h2>\n<p>Words like immoral, obscene, and vulgar have long been used by governments to squash freedom of expression. On the other end of the spectrum, certain video apps have been banned by other countries such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/taiwan-to-block-baidu-and-tencent-video-streaming-services-in-name-of-national-security-concerns\/\">Taiwan<\/a> because of the potential for undue overseas influence and propaganda. Whether it\u2019s on the national security end of the spectrum or the protect the children end of the spectrum, the attempted blocking of software by governments should be noted and scrutinized whenever it happens.<\/p>\n<p>No matter the specific reasons given for a block, the fact remains that the internet. Just because a video can be called \u201cimmoral\u201d or \u201cindecent\u201d by a certain subset of the population doesn\u2019t mean that blocking will be successful. In fact, the attempts of other countries such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/russia-declares-pornhub-youporn-illegal-content-blocks-access\/\">Russia<\/a> to ban popular pornography sites like Pornhub \u2013 and their continued use \u2013 should serve as a reminder that the internet is open despite the best efforts of tech-illiterate governments. On the PTA\u2019s end, they have issued this block as a move to force TikTok to comply with Pakistani censorship requirements. The PTA\u2019s announcement ended with the following statement:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cTikTok has been informed that the Authority is open for engagement and will review its decision subject to a satisfactory mechanism by TikTok to moderate unlawful content.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While companies and governments play hardball negotiation, end users are the ones that suffer. TikTok users in Pakistan will need to turn to VPN use to be able to continue to use TikTok now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pakistan Telecommunications Authority (PTA) has officially banned TikTok for providing access to \u201cimmoral and indecent\u201d videos \u2013 though it remains to be seen how permanent this ban will be. TikTok has recently had similar troubles in the United States; however, it is becoming increasingly clear that these software bans being executed or threatened by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/pakistan-bans-tiktok-calls-videos-immoral-and-indecent\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pakistan bans TikTok; calls videos &#8220;immoral and indecent&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":14391,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":true,"_modified_date":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1945,1,130,1940],"tags":[713,2042,1866,2004],"class_list":["post-14389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-censorship","category-news","category-governments","category-social-media","tag-pakistan","tag-pakistan-telecommunciations-authority","tag-tiktok","tag-tiktok-ban"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Pakistan bans TikTok; 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