ISLAMABAD – Tech giants Google, Facebook and Twitter gives a strong threatto Pakistan government.
With the passage of Citizens Protection Ruleslink(AgainstOnline Harm), Pakistan’s government envisaged exercising significantinfluence on tech giants like Facebook, Google, Twitter and others.
However, the joint response from Asian Internet Coalition (AIC) might haverattled the Pakistani government as they have threatened to abandon theirservices in Pakistan, sending 70 million internet users into digitaldarkness.
While tech companies claim that they are not against the regulation ofsocial media in order to curb spread of fake news, the way in which theseregulations have been enacted has made AIC members re-evaluate theirwillingness to operate in Pakistan.——————————
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Tech companies have communicated their apprehensions through a collectiveletterlinktothe Prime Minister, Imran Khan.
The letter terms the latest set of regulations as vague and arbitrary innature and in contradiction to the Prime Minister’s vision of digitalPakistan.
