The management of Twitter is not cooperating with the government of Pakistan in removing illegal content on their platform, this has been stated in official government documents.
Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has processed a total of 1862 websites containing content related to impersonation and fake accounts. These include 106 on Dailymotion, 923 Facebook, 13 Instagram, 211 Other/Misc, 341 on Twitter, and 268 Youtube posts or accounts.
PTA has been working in close coordination with the management of Facebook in order to address the issue of illegal content on their platform. Due to continued efforts of the government, Facebook‘s management is cooperating better, however, Twitter’s response is not very encouraging.
In accordance with section 37 of Prevention of Electronic Crime Act (PECA), PTA is empowered to block or remove online content which is unlawful including fake accounts.
PTA has constituted a dedicated cell namely Web Analysis Cell (WAC) to receive and process complaints requiring internet content regulation. A standard operating procedure has been devised to execute the process in an effective manner.
In accordance with the SOPs, complaints from individuals and stakeholders requiring regulation of web content under different categories including defamation/impersonation are received through an electronic portal, email, and postal media.
At present, 30 federal and provincial government organizations are using an e-portal for addressing complaints. The general public can lodge their complaints with PTA through a dedicated email address i.e. [email protected].
Once PTA receives a complaint, it issues necessary directions for the alleged content to be removed by telecom licensees. For platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube, the relevant administration is requested to remove the content or block the fake account. Since the laws of Pakistan do not apply on such platforms, therefore, they take action in accordance with their community standards.
Ministry of Information and Broadcast (MoIB) has raised a Cyber Wing which reported about 85 fake accounts, including 13 Facebook and 72 Twitter accounts.
It has been observed that social media platforms promptly respond to their users instead of any government organization. In this regard, PTA has also run a media campaign to educate users about their rights.
Becuase We Are Not Indians Warna Ab tak Remove Ho Jata :
PTA Should be Hire Hackerssss(Secret) & blocked** all account and remove all the they want :
Indeed India has more sway. Why is Pakistan so weak? Why can’t it force foreigners to comply with its backward censorship demands?
Shame on PTA for not only having its authority challenged but losing to it as well.
Pakistan has zero leverage over foreign companies. Shame on Pakistanis for wasting their money fighting needless wars with india and not focusing on our economy. If we had a strong economy twitter and the rest would be afraid of losing market share and would have to comply.
Good that Twitter is not complying with Pakistan’s censorship requests. Pakistanis deserve to be treated like dirt!
PTA should block twitter like they did youtube for 5 years. They should block all foreign sites and only allows Pakistanis to visit halal pak govt sites.
PTA is headed by a Gernal Sahib, dont forget. So Twitter is actually not cooperating with such mindset and an illegit govt bent upon censorship.
As regards, MoIB, I personally know a criminal employee who spent 4 years in prison for spreading sec*tarian hate speech and afterwards arrested four times by FIA Cybercrime Wing for same charges apart from hacking and blackmailing on FB. But he always get away using money and influence and enjoys 6 figure salary and perks.