{"id":829533,"date":"2024-07-05T09:00:45","date_gmt":"2024-07-05T03:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=829533"},"modified":"2024-07-05T09:03:33","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T03:33:33","slug":"pak-to-ban-social-media-platforms-for-6-days-to-control-hate-during-ramadan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/07\/05\/pak-to-ban-social-media-platforms-for-6-days-to-control-hate-during-ramadan\/","title":{"rendered":"Pak to ban social media platforms for 6 days to control hate during Ramadan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After successfully blocking X, formerly Twitter, for over four months, the Pakistan government is now set to ban all social media platforms &#8212; YouTube, WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram and TikTok &#8212; for six days from July 13 to 18, citing the need to control &#8220;hate material&#8221; during the Islamic month of Ramadan. <\/p>\n<p>Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz&#8217;s cabinet committee on law and order has recommended banning of all social media platforms &#8212; YouTube, X, WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok, among others &#8211;during 6 to 11 Muharram (July 13-18) in Punjab, a province of over 120 million people, to &#8220;control hate material, misinformation to avoid sectarian violence&#8221;, according to a Punjab government notification issued here late Thursday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After successfully blocking X, formerly Twitter, for over four months, the Pakistan government is now set to ban all social media platforms &#8212; YouTube, WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram and TikTok &#8212; for six days from July 13 to 18, citing the need to control &#8220;hate material&#8221; during the Islamic month of Ramadan. Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz&#8217;s cabinet committee on law and order has recommended banning of all social media platforms &#8212; YouTube, X, WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok, among others &#8211;during 6 to 11 Muharram (July 13-18) in Punjab, a province of over 120 million people, to &#8220;control hate material, misinformation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,34,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-829533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-it-2-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=829533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=829533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=829533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=829533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}