{"id":20442,"date":"2024-11-13T15:22:18","date_gmt":"2024-11-13T10:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/?p=20442"},"modified":"2024-11-13T15:22:20","modified_gmt":"2024-11-13T10:22:20","slug":"pakistanis-make-at-least-20m-attempts-daily-to-access-porn-pta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/2024\/11\/13\/pakistanis-make-at-least-20m-attempts-daily-to-access-porn-pta\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistanis make at least 20m attempts daily to access porn: PTA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has unearthed an estimated 20 million daily attempts to access porn websites via VPNs in Pakistan, and in response blocked 844,000 pornographic websites.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It has also blocked an additional 183 blasphemous URLs, according to government sources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to sources, government agencies also report such sites to the PTA in addition to receiving individual complaints regarding obscene content.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A few days ago, the PTA started blocking unregistered and illegal VPNs across the country, calling them security risks and citing a need to regulate VPN usage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to PTA sources, the action is being enforced through a firewall to identify and temporarily block VPNs that have not been officially registered. &#8220;VPNs are being temporarily blocked for whitelisting,&#8221; PTA sources said, adding that the authority wants to speed up the VPN whitelisting process.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has unearthed an estimated 20 million daily attempts to access<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20443,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[215],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.4.1 - 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