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