Pakistan Bans TikTok (techcrunch.com) 30
Pakistan has banned TikTok again in the country after reviewing a complaint that said the popular video app hosted immoral and objectionable content. From a report: A high court in the city of Peshawar on Thursday ordered the nation's telecom authority -- Pakistan Telecom Authority (PTA) -- to ban TikTok. In a statement Thursday evening, Pakistan Telecom Authority said it was complying with the order and had "issued directions to the service providers to immediately block access to the TikTok app."TikTok had about 33 million users in Pakistan last month, according to mobile insight firm App Annie (data of which an industry executive shared with TechCrunch). There are about 100 million internet users in the South Asian nation. The Peshawar High Court's Chief Justice Qaiser Rashid Khan described some videos on TikTok as "unacceptable for Pakistani society," and said these videos were "peddling vulgarity," according to local media reports.
They're not wrong (Score:1)
Immoral and objectionable content?
Yeah, why do you think people use it?
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Try not being so intellectually dishonest.
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That doesn't mean the previous administration was anything like a theocracy. Nice try. I don't even like that guy and I still don't buy your moronic statement. Dear Leader, "dominate" religions, pfft.
We were never like Pakistan. Grow up.
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Yeah it was horrible under Trump when hundreds of thousands of people who said bad things about Trump on Twitter and elsewhere got rounded up and tens of thousands outright executed.
Thank god the despot allowed himself to be voted out like all tyrannical despots do.
Uh oh.. (Score:4, Insightful)
Wait until they hear about this thing called 'the internet'.
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Or 'the rest of the world'.
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having watched multiple TikTok cringe compilations (Score:5, Funny)
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I agree with their conclusion but not with treating their citizens like children and imposing a values system on them.
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Pakistan is becoming a Chinese colony (Score:1)
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If China wants to colonize Pakistan . . . let them try. Better yet, they can have Afghanistan too!
No Problem, right? (Score:2)
If a private corporation, a collection of people devoted to a common purpose, decided to ban TikTok on their platform, that would be just fine for them to decide what they want to do with their own platform.
If someone doesn't like the company's decision, they can just move to a different platform.
If country, a collection of people with a common identity, decided they did not want TikTok in their country, it is their right to exclude it from their own country, right?
Of course, if a Pakistani doesn't l
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Of course, if a Pakistani doesn't like the decision of the government, they can just move to another country, right?
Welcome to the UK.
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There's probably plenty of human rights violations occurring before it reaches that point, but when the cost is your life I don't think there's a lot of room
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At what point is the cost of moving platforms/countries so great that it becomes a human rights violation?
That happened here once in the States... with Tik-Tok! The Trump Administration didn't like prank a bunch of Tik-Tok users played at a Trump Rally and tried to get Tik-Tok banned over it. 1A violation, right there. That's why they're still here.
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If country, a collection of people with a common identity, decided they did not want TikTok in their country, it is their right to exclude it from their own country, right?
If it's a democracy, sure. Pakistan sometimes is, sometimes isn't (but really never is; more on that later).
Of course, if a Pakistani doesn't like the decision of the government, they can just move to another country, right?
Usually not. Instead they have to either get elected or start a revolution, and if they lose, they're dead. Not a lot of people think access to TikTok is worth those stakes.
At what point is the cost of moving platforms/countries so great that it becomes a human rights violation?
In Pakistan's case, that point was reached a century ago. And retreated from, and returned to, and retreated from, repeatedly. Pakistan has military coups as a hobby, and oddly enough tends to do better under them. It has bee
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How do I make it a Soviet America .... comment. (Score:2)
In Soviet America tik-tok bans the State.
Let me be the first to welcome our TikTok overlords
I *am* a TikTok overlord, you insensitive clod!
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