Online System, or any services provided by such Service Providers owned or managed by the
said Service Providers or Social Media Company.
9.
Other Obligations of the Service Providers and Social Media Companies.- (1) A
Social Media Company and Service Provider shall publish the Community Guidelines for
access or usage of any Online System.
(2)
Such Community Guidelines shall inform the User of the Online System not to host,
display, upload, modify, publish, transmit, update or share any Online Content that:
i.
ii.
iii.
iv.
v.
vi.
belongs to another Person or to which User does not have any right; or
is blasphemous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, pedophilic, invasive of
another’s privacy; or
violates or affects religious, cultural, ethnical sensitivities of Pakistan; or
harms minor in any way; or
impersonates another person; or
threatens the integrity, security or defence of Pakistan, or public order, or
causes incitement to any offence under the Act.
(3)
A Social Media Company and Service Provider shall deploy appropriate mechanisms
for identifying an Online Content as specified in sub rule (2).
(4)
The Service Provider and Social Media Company shall not knowingly host, display,
upload, publish, transmit, update or share any Online Content, and shall not allow the
transmission, select the receiver of transmission, and select or modify the information
contained in the transmission as specified in sub rule (2)
Provided that the following actions by a Service Provider and Social Media Company
shall not amount to hosting publishing, editing or storing of any such information as specified
in sub rule (1):
(a) temporary or transient or intermediary storage of information automatically
within the information system as an essential feature of such information
system, involving no exercise of any human editorial control, for onward
transmission or communication to another information system;
(b) removal of access to any information, data or communication link by a Service
Provider and Social Media Company after such information, data,
communication link comes to the actual knowledge of a person authorized by
the Social Media Company pursuant to any order or direction as per the
provision of the Act.
(5)
The Service Provider and the Social Media Company which has more than half million
users in Pakistan or is in the list of Service Provider or Social Media Companies specially
notified by the Authority from time to time shall:
(a) register with the Authority, within nine months of coming into force of these
rules;