{"id":830264,"date":"2024-07-06T10:36:24","date_gmt":"2024-07-06T05:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=830264"},"modified":"2024-07-06T10:42:22","modified_gmt":"2024-07-06T05:12:22","slug":"pakistans-punjab-to-ban-social-media-platforms-for-6-days-during-muharram-to-control-hate-material","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/07\/06\/pakistans-punjab-to-ban-social-media-platforms-for-6-days-during-muharram-to-control-hate-material\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan&#8217;s Punjab to ban social media platforms for 6 days during Muharram to control &#8216;hate material&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After blocking X, formerly Twitter, for over four months, the government in Pakistan&#8217;s Punjab province is now set to ban all social media platforms &#8212; YouTube, WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram and TikTok &#8212; for six days between July 13 and 18, citing the need to control &#8220;hate material&#8221; during the Islamic month of Muharram.<\/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 &#8212; during 6th to 11th day of 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 notification issued here late Thursday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After blocking X, formerly Twitter, for over four months, the government in Pakistan&#8217;s Punjab province is now set to ban all social media platforms &#8212; YouTube, WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram and TikTok &#8212; for six days between July 13 and 18, citing the need to control &#8220;hate material&#8221; during the Islamic month of Muharram. 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 &#8212; during 6th to 11th day of Muharram (July 13-18) in Punjab, a province of over 120 million people, [&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":[91,4,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-830264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-tribune","category-newspapers","category-the-tribune"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830264","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=830264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=830264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=830264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=830264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}