AMMAN — Over two months after
TikTok was banned in Jordan for failing “to deal with content
inciting violence” and “misuse”, there are no signs of the platform making a return in
the near future.
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In a recent interview with Saraya News, the
media spokesperson for the Ministry of Digital Economy and Entrepreneurship, Shorouq
Helal, gave no hint as to whether
TikTok would be reactivated soon and simply
reiterated that the Public Security Directorate (PSD) is the authority responsible
for restoring or continuing the ban on the application.
On 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”.
The ban sparked widespread controversy in
Jordan, home to millions of TikTok users — some of whom resorted to
virtual private networks (VPNs) to continue accessing the app.
Talks with the authoritiesA 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 a statement by the platform,
310,724 videos had been deleted from various accounts in Jordan — over 86
percent of them without receiving any views.
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