Pakistan's Federal Minister for Science and Technology Fawad Chaudhry has said in a court order banning tuk-tuk that it is "another decision that the people of Pakistan will pay a heavy price for."
It may be recalled that on Thursday, the Peshawar High Court had said that tack talk videos were spreading "obscenity" in the society and had ordered the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) to ban the app.
Later, the PTA complied with the court order and asked the concerned authorities to stop access to Tik Tak completely.
In his Twitter statement, Fawad Chaudhry added that he knew that most of the judges were unfamiliar with the working models of technology, he would request the Chief Justice of Pakistan to intervene and work with the Ministry of Science and Technology on it. Will do.
TuckTuck said in a statement following the court's decision that it had increased its content monitoring capability in Pakistan by 250 percent and was committed to removing "inappropriate" content in compliance with Pakistan's local laws.
But TuckTuck also says it will ensure users' right to creative expression on the platform in accordance with its policies.
The video-sharing app says it hopes to work with the authorities to come up with a solution that will continue to benefit Pakistan's "millions of users".
On the other hand, the Pakistan Telecommunications Authority said that in compliance with the orders of the Peshawar High Court, service providers have been directed to immediately block access to the Tik Tak app.
According to the PTA, Tik Tak is cooperating with the Pakistan Telecom Authority in regulating objectionable content.
Who applied for the ban?
The petition was filed by Nazish Muzaffar Advocate and Sara Ali Khan on behalf of more than 40 citizens to ban the popular app TickTalk for sharing videos.
Chief Justice Peshawar High Court Justice Qaiser Rashid while hearing the case said that obscenity was spreading in the society through tick talk videos and no steps were being taken to stop it.
He said during the hearing that the videos uploaded on Tik Tak are not acceptable to our society.
When the hearing began in the court on Thursday, the Attorney General informed the court that the report has been submitted as per the order of the court. The Director General of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) provided details of the report.
The attorney general, meanwhile, said the ban could give the impression of a ban on expression, so the ban should last for a week, to which Nazish Muzaffar said freedom of expression should be in accordance with the constitution and claimed that This freedom is against the constitution and religious traditions.
Earlier, the petition was heard on February 10 in which officials of PTA, FIA and other concerned agencies appeared before the court asking the authorities to submit a report in which the application is controlled. Explain how to do it.
In their report, the officials said that at present a large number of videos are uploaded on TalkTalk on a daily basis while the concerned agencies have limited resources which makes it difficult to check all the videos and take steps to stop them.
Nazish Muzaffar's position was that he did not want a complete ban on it, but that there should be a ban on what he described as "obscenity and nudity."
During the proceedings, the Chief Justice asked the PTA officials whether shutting down the Tik Tak app would harm the company, to which the PTA officials replied in the affirmative, to which the court said that if they were harmed, Then it should be closed, 'If there is a loss, they will comply with your request.'
Earlier, in October 2020, the PTA banned the app for publishing "immoral content", but the ban was lifted.
Tik Tak is very popular in Pakistan and thousands of people in Pakistan upload videos on this app daily.
Tuck Tuck provided an opportunity to show off his skills to countless people who probably didn't even know him, and many of them became overnight stars and were invited to shows abroad.
But as the app grew in popularity among Pakistani youth, controversy over it escalated and the issue escalated from a warning to a ban.
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