Thirty days after Jordan’s Cybercrime Unit announced that TikTok had been “temporarily suspended” in the country, the short-form video hosting service continues to be blocked by the local authorities indefinitely.

The government is yet to announce when the video-sharing mobile application will be reinstated, but the estimated 4.4 million users in Jordan have found ways to work around the suspension.

Local TikTok users said they were no longer interested in the official suspension being lifted as, thanks to Virtual Private Network applications (VPN), they can watch and share videos despite the ban.

Notably, several Virtual Private Network applications (VPN) rose to the top ranking apps downloaded in Jordan since TikTok was suspended by local authorities.

When asked about the reasoning behind the decision to suspend the service, a source told Roya that Jordanian authorities were dissatisfied with some of the content on TikTok which aims to spread false news and encourage acts of violence.

The Cybercrime Unit noted that its teams have always been monitoring the content shared on different social media platforms, especially those linked to hate speech, incitement to vandalism, assaults on law enforcement agencies, property, and road blocking.

They released a statement warning citizens that the competent authorities will refer anyone who commits such crimes to the judiciary.

Last Sunday, the Minister of Government Communication, Faisal Al-Shboul, explained that it's part of the local authorities’s responsibility to protect children from different types of content available on social media which are published without any "control."

Shboul said that the government is "Going to pass a law to regulate the work of social networking sites in coordination with the League of Arab States."