AMMAN —
TikTok has failed to met requirements set by Jordan’s government in order to lift the official ban of the platform,
Government Spokesman and Minister of Government Communication Faisal
Shboul said on Tuesday.
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TikTok’s problem, and something that they
have admitted, is that they censor videos less than other platforms,"
Shboul said. If the platform addresses this problem, "we may return to
dialogue".
Shboul was speaking during an event at the
Al-Hussein Cultural Center titled "Jordanian Media and the Unified Arab
Strategy for Dealing with International Media Companies".
Unmet conditionsIn terms of government discussions with TikTok, the regional director for the platform visited Amman to try to lift the
ban, he said. That dialogue was "only technical and legal... and (TikTok) was
asked for things that they have not yet delivered."
The minister said that hundreds of
thousands of accounts “are deleted daily because of hate speech or because of
criticism of Israel," however, “no accounts are shut down for Arab
causes".
Reasons behind the banOn December 16 last year, the
PSD’s Cybercrime Unit had announced the temporary suspension of the platform in
Jordan, stating that it had failed to crack down on “content inciting
violence”, hate speech, and calls for vandalism during a strike by truck and
transportation drivers.
Minister of Government Communication and
Government Spokesperson Faisal Shboul had stated at the time that TikTok had
published “a large number of inflammatory videos”.
A month after the suspension was
instated,
TikTok announced that it had held talks with the
Jordanian authorities with the aim of lifting the ban.
According to the platform, 310,724 videos
had been deleted from various accounts in Jordan.
Support for print mediaIn terms of other media outlets
operating in the Kingdom, the government has taken several steps to support print
newspapers, most notably, raising the price of government advertisements in
daily newspapers from 55 piasters per word to JD1 per word.
This move aims to increase government
support for print media and enabling it to find sustainable solutions and
revenues in light of current challenges, Shboul said, urging newspapers to
upgrade their content to regain steady readership.
According to government figures, 250 media
outlets are registered with the Media Commission.
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