Tik Tok Ban, Junaid Akram's Podcast and the Public Opinion.
On 09 Oct 2020, the Pakistan's telecom regulator, Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has banned Tik Tok in Pakistan for receiving complaints regarding "Immoral/Indecent" content being posted on the video-sharing platform. The regulatory body further elaborated that Tik Tok was issued a final notice and was given considerable time to respond, however, the platform was unable to fully comply with the instructions to moderate unlawful online content. PTA Bans Tik Tok in Pakistan Tik Tok is a China based video-sharing social media site owned by ByteDance , also a multinational internet technology company based in Beijing, China. In China, Tik Tok is known as Douyin. This Social Networking application let the users dub, remake and act with music and share short video clips with followers. Comedy is also one of the factors of its popularity. Soon after the notice of ban was issued, public took to social media to either thank the regulatory body or criticize the move