PHC orders to ban TikTok over ‘obscene’ content

Peshawar High Court has banned TikTok, a popular Chinese-owned Video app over immoral content.  

TikTok faced another ban after PHC Chief Justice Qaiser Rashid Khan directed Pakistani authorities to immediately ban the app. A please was filed earlier seeking a ban on Tiktok.

PHC Chief Justice during the hearing remarked that the videos uploaded on TikTok were not acceptable for Pakistani society. He added that the audience mostly affected by TikTok was the youth. The judge also expressed his displeasure over the reports he was receiving of TikTok.

According to Chief Justice Qaisar Rashid Khan, Tik​​Tok videos are spreading obscenity and should be shut down immediately. Pakistan’s ban on TikTok is the latest blow to the social media company, months after it was blocked in neighboring India, then its largest market by users.

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TikTok, along with dozens of other mostly Chinese apps, was banned in June at the height of India’s border dispute with China. The app also faces the threat of being barred in the US after officials said it posed a national security risk, and it has come under intense scrutiny in Australia.

TikTok was banned in Bangladesh last year as part of a clampdown on pornography. Indonesia briefly blocked access to the app in 2018 over blasphemy concerns.