Lahore, 2nd September: Pakistan has banned 5 dating apps in the country for immoral content.
According to reports, Tinder, Grindr, and three other dating apps have been banned in Pakistan for disseminating “immoral content”.
The government has issued notices to Tinder, Grindr, Tagged, Skout and SayHi to remove the dating services.
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The country’s internet regulator said the companies had not responded to it within the given time.
A spokesman from Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) told BBC Urdu that as a consequence, the decision had been made to bring the management of these platforms into a “moral and legal realm”.
However, PTA might reconsider the action if the apps agree to moderate what it views to be unethical and obscene material on their platforms.
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Tinder, Grindr, Tagged and Skout did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Reuters news agency and the BBC were unable to contact SayHi for comment.
Data from analytics firm Sensor Tower indicates Tinder has been downloaded more than 440,000 times in Pakistan within the last 12 months.
Grindr, Tagged, and SayHi had each been downloaded about 300,000 times and Skout 100,000 times in that same period, Reuters reported.
In July, Pakistan issued a “final warning” to TikTok over explicit content posted on the platform. It has also banned access to Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube in recent years.
Last week, the PTA also asked the video-sharing platform YouTube to “immediately block vulgar, indecent, immoral, nude and hate speech content for viewing in Pakistan”.
Pakistan is the second-largest Muslim majority country and it can not promote homosexuality and extramarital relations in the country. The government has to take measures to stop such and many more sins to spread in society.
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