{"id":353,"date":"2021-11-20T21:21:55","date_gmt":"2021-11-20T15:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asiafirstdaily.com\/?p=353"},"modified":"2021-11-21T15:34:47","modified_gmt":"2021-11-21T09:49:47","slug":"pakistan-authority-announces-restoration-of-tiktok-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiafirstdaily.com\/?p=353","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan authority announces restoration of TikTok services"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>ANI, Islamabad [Pakistan], Nov. 20 \u2013 <\/strong>Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has restored the services of TikTok on assurances of the platform to &#8220;control immoral and indecent&#8221; content.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The company assured that the users who are continuously involved in uploading unlawful content will be blocked from using the platform,&#8221; PTA said in a tweet. PTA said that keeping in view the assurances, it decided to lift the ban on TikTok.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, the authority said that it will continue to monitor the platform in order to ensure that &#8220;unlawful content contrary to Pakistan&#8217;s law and societal values is not disseminated&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ban was imposed in July. PTA remained in communications with the TikTok management after the ban.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The restoration comes as a result of &#8220;continuous engagement, senior management of the platform assured PTA of its commitment to take necessary measures to control unlawful content in accordance with local laws and societal norms,&#8221; PTA said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANI, Islamabad [Pakistan], Nov. 20 \u2013 Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has restored the services of TikTok on assurances of the platform to &#8220;control immoral and indecent&#8221; content. &#8220;The company assured that the users who are continuously involved in uploading unlawful content will be blocked from using the platform,&#8221; PTA said in a tweet. PTA said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[92,163],"class_list":["post-353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science_technology","tag-pakistan","tag-tiktok"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asiafirstdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/tiktok-in-smartphone.jpg?fit=1200%2C670&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiafirstdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiafirstdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiafirstdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiafirstdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiafirstdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiafirstdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiafirstdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiafirstdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiafirstdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiafirstdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}