Overview
- The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority submitted a detailed enforcement report to the Lahore High Court documenting platform-by-platform actions against unlawful online content.
- Facebook had 229,000 links reviewed with 197,000 blocked, Instagram 43,000 reviewed with 38,000 blocked, YouTube 72,000 reviewed with over 64,000 blocked, and X 112,000 reviewed with 70,800 blocked.
- TikTok saw more than 174,000 links examined and over 163,000 removed, reflecting the highest proportional removal rate at about 94%.
- Obscene or immoral content comprised the largest share with over 1.06 million links blocked, followed by 148,000 for content deemed against security and defense, more than 109,000 for anti-religious material, and 76,000 for sectarian or hate content.
- On other websites, nearly 898,000 links were reviewed and about 891,000 were blocked, indicating near-total enforcement, while X recorded the lowest proportional removal rate at roughly 62%.