The alert is serious for TikTok. After India, which banned the Chinese application last June, it is Pakistan's turn to do the same. The Peshawar city high court has asked the national telecommunications authority, the Pakistan Telecom Authority (PTA), to ban the social network in the country.
TikTok has 33 million users in Pakistan and the announcement is therefore far from trivial. The judge justifies his decision by the fact that certain videos on the platform are “unacceptable for Pakistani society» and “peddle vulgarity”. Therefore, in a press release the PTA explains having “issued instructions to service providers to immediately block access to TikTok».
TikTok has already been threatened in Italy and the United States
As a reminder, the application was already briefly banned last year in Pakistan. At the time, the PTA said TikTok had failed to address its concerns about certain videos despite several warnings.
This new offensive should not necessarily be to the taste of large technology companies. At the end of last year, companies like Apple, Facebook, Google, Amazon, LinkedIn, SAP, Expedia Group, Yahoo, and even Airbnb, came together within the Asia Internet Coalition to oppose a law which targeted the web giants.
Note also that TikTok has beenpartially blocked in Italyat the beginning of the year following a fatal accident which cost the life of a ten-year-old girl who was participating in the scarf game on the Chinese platform. For several weeks, all Italians who were unable to prove that they were of the required age (13 years) were unable to access the site.
The Chinese social network has also been under threat for a long timeof a ban in the United States. Former President Donald Trump demanded that TikTok's U.S. operations be handed over to a domestic company. After numerous postponements, this measure now seems almost buried. Unless the Biden administration decides to take up this idea.
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