Govt stays confused how to deal with social harm.
HARMFUL CONTENT ON MEDIA: SOURCE: DAWN.COM

It has been a long time since the strict Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act ‘Peca’ was passed, however uncertainty still despite everything exists in the nation over how to manage unsafe content via web-based networking media.

On Feb 15, the Asia Internet Coalition ‘AIC’, a gathering of web organizations, including giants, for example, Facebook, Twitter and Google, composed a letter to Prime Minister Imran Khan, cautioning him that new standards to direct social media life action would make it “amazingly troublesome” for computerized organizations to work in Pakistan.

In the middle of criticism, Prime Minister Khan said “all partners” would be accepted before actualizing the new guidelines. Without digging into details of the procedure, he trusted that all web organizations would keep on working in Pakistan and that the legislature would address their complaints.

Vulnerability continues since certain authorities keep up the new guidelines were “approved” by the government bureau on Jan 28, however not advised. The principles were not being actualized at this moment and the upcoming interview would be centered on by overall content management and approaches to produce income.

As indicated by PM’s Focal Person on Digital Media Arslan Khalid, a working form on the conference will be drafted by the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority ‘PTA’ and will be made accessible to the public soon. The PTA says methods in regards to the process will be shared once concluded.

Mr Khalid said the partners, including innovation firms, civil society activists, parliamentarians, legal counselors and media people, would be counseled on managing content identifying with violation, hate speech, character killing and fraud news.

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