ISLAMABAD – Twitter says that the number of content removal requests fromgovernment and other institutions has increased but overall there is a 40%drop in Twitter accounts reported by Pakistan. The information revealed inthe 15th Twitter Transparency Report based on the first six months of 2019.
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The government of Pakistan sent 273 content removal requests from Januaryto July 2019 as compared to the 243 in the same period last year. While thenumber of accounts reported has dropped from 3004 to 1798. There is a minorincrease in account information requests but the numbers of accountsspecified were 70 in this period from 54 in last year.
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Out of 273 requests from government 8 were sent through court orders.Twitter did not take full actions against all the reported accounts asrequested by the government. Some of the content was removed from 234accounts for violation of twitter rules.
*“Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) reports content that fallsunder hate speech, impersonation or blasphemy.”* Arslan Khalid, PM’s focalperson on digital media, said to media.
In the response to the low compliance question, he said *“It is becauseTwitter was not bound to submit to any laws or requests by Pakistan,”* andhe added, *“legislation had been proposed with recommendations which neededto be vetted by three to four ministries before any progress.”*
Twitter said that they have taken strict action against the abuse on theirplatform, More than 50% of tweets removed this year for containing abusivecontent. The number has increased impressively as compared to 20% last year.
