New Delhi: Pakistan has blocked social media app TikTok for failing to filter out “immoral” content.
In a press statement on Friday, the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority said the decision to ban the Chinese short-video making platform after “receiving a number of complaints against immoral/indecent content from different segments of the society”.
The ban immediately took over Twitter with netizens in India exhibiting various hilarious concerns through memes making #TikTok one of the top trends for the day, News 18 reported.
While many drew a parallel between Pakistani TikTokers and their Indian counterparts, others came forward to hail the decision.
Here are a few of them:
mean while Indians in ????? #TikTok pic.twitter.com/pGCAzIrwoG
— ??Àtúl?Harí ?? (@atulhari10) October 9, 2020
#TikTok
Divided by border.
United by making tiktokers jobless. pic.twitter.com/zfpGIqetxZ— Akash K. Verma (@Akash_sept11) October 9, 2020
#TikTok ban in Pakistan.
Meanwhile Memer’s & Youtuber’s: pic.twitter.com/g1B6P0JF5v
— JahanZaib (@JahanZaibb_) October 9, 2020
After hearing the news of #TikTok ban in Pakistan
Kusry : pic.twitter.com/qqQoewwYqG
— _H@rîs_ (@imharis_10) October 9, 2020