He was responding to a call-to-attention notice regarding the spread of fake news on social media platforms in the National Assembly by Asiya Naz Tanoli. Parliamentary Secretary Sajid Mehdi admitted that the government had blocked the social media platform X (formerly Twitter) to curb misinformation, adding that 86,000 SIMs have also been blocked over anti-state […]
As per details, it has so far blocked over one hundred thousand blasphemous URLs and 844,008 obscene websites. In a separate development, the government of Pakistan started blocking unregistered Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) in a firewall trial. The unregistered VPNs were blocked temporarily for white-listing. The sources within the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) termed unregistered […]
