Pakistan to lift ban on TikTok after ByteDance vows to moderate content

It promised to reallocate resources to improve its system

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ByteDance regretted that it's unfortunate that Pakistan’s vibrant online community is still unable to showcase their talent and creativity to our hundreds of millions of users worldwide.
Reuters ISLAMABAD
1 min read Last Updated : Oct 19 2020 | 5:34 PM IST

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan has decided to lift a ban on popular social media app TikTok after the company vowed to block all accounts involved in spreading "obscenity and immorality", the country's telecom authority said in a tweet on Monday.

The move comes some 10 days after Pakistan blocked TikTok for failing to filter out "immoral and indecent" content.

 

(Reporting by Asif Shahzad; Writing by Euan Rocha; Editing by Catherine Evans)

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Topics :Pakistan TikTokByteDance

First Published: Oct 19 2020 | 5:26 PM IST

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