Pakistan banned, from Friday, the popular application "TikTok" specialized in sharing short videos due to what it called "immoral content", after it finally blocked the main dating apps for the same reasons.
"The application did not fully respect the instructions, and therefore recommendations were issued to ban the application of Tik Tok in the country," the Pakistan Communications Authority said in a statement.
The authority had previously issued two warnings to "TikTok", in which it demanded that the application prohibit what "immoral, vulgar and vulgar" content is published on it.
And correspondents of the French News Agency reported that communication with "Tik Tok" was not possible in Pakistan on Friday evening.
Arslan Khalid, an advisor to Prime Minister Imran Khan for digital media affairs, recently confirmed that "the exploitation and sexualization of girls via TikTok."
All cause suffering to the people.
TikTok expressed in a statement, "We hope to reach an agreement that will help us serve our dynamic and creative electronic community in the country."
Digital rights activist Usama Khalaji said, "Tik Tok is a major source of entertainment for Pakistanis from the middle classes and below, in addition to illiterate citizens, equivalent to half of the population, because it is based on video recordings," denouncing what he considered a violation of freedom of expression.
Pakistan is locked in a fierce battle against online services, which it accuses of spreading vice in society, and in early September, Islamabad banned several dating applications, including Tinder, for the same motives.
At the end of last August, the Pakistani authorities called on YouTube - affiliated with Google - to ban "vulgar and obscene contents of shame, immoral, images of nudity and hate speech."
Last year, Bangladesh banned this application within the framework of laws against pornographic content, while Indonesia blocked it for a short period of time due to cases related to the blasphemy laws.
The authorities of neighboring India have also banned TikTok, which is owned by the Chinese "ByteDance" group, along with dozens of other Chinese applications, due to national security concerns.
TikTok faces increasing criticism over the way it collects user data, but it has repeatedly denied sharing this data with the Chinese authorities.