Pakistan's 48-hour ultimatum to Wikipedia over 'blasphemous’ content material | World News

Wikipedia will likely be blocked in Pakistan if the platform doesn't take down content material thought of to be illegal inside 48 hours, the nation’s telecoms regulator mentioned as per Bloomberg.

Based on the assertion, Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) mentioned it had “degraded” Wikipedia companies over non-compliance of an earlier route to take away “illegal” content material. With out explaining the measures taken in opposition to the platform, the assertion mentioned that the positioning will likely be halted if it fails to take away the content material in query.

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Wikipedia “will likely be blocked inside Pakistan,” the authority mentioned, with out giving info on the content material that it needed to be eliminated.

“There may be slowness and undoubtedly it’ll affect particularly those that use Wikipedia for training and data functions,” Wahaj-us-Siraj, Chief Govt Officer of web supplier Nayatel, mentioned, as per Bloomberg.

Earlier, Pakistan has taken motion in opposition to varied social media platforms for broadcasting content material deemed blasphemous.