Published November 13,2023
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Nepal stated on Monday it will ban China’s TikTok, including that social concord and goodwill have been being disturbed by “misuse” of the favored video app and there was rising demand to regulate it.
TikTok has already been both partially or fully banned by different nations, with many citing safety considerations.
More than 1,600 TikTok-related cyber crime instances have been registered during the last 4 years in Nepal, in line with native media experiences.
Nepal’s Minister for Communications and Information Technology Rekha Sharma stated the choice to ban TikTok had been made at a cupboard assembly earlier on Monday.
“Colleagues are working on closing it technically,” Sharma advised Reuters.
Nepal Telecom Authority Chair Purushottam Khanal stated that web service suppliers have been requested to shut the app.
“Some have already closed while others are doing it later today,” Khanal advised Reuters.
TikTok didn’t instantly reply to a request for touch upon the matter. It has beforehand stated such bans are “misguided” and that they’re based mostly on “misconceptions”.
Opposition leaders in Nepal criticised the transfer, saying that it lacked “effectiveness, maturity and responsibility”.
“There are many unwanted materials in other social media also. What must be done is to regulate and not restrict them,” Pradeep Gyawali, former international minister and a senior chief of the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist), stated.
Nepal’s neighbour India banned TikTok together with dozens of different apps by Chinese builders in June 2020, saying that they may compromise nationwide safety and integrity.
Another South Asian nation, Pakistan, has banned the app no less than 4 instances over what the nation’s authorities phrases its “immoral and indecent” content material.
Source: www.anews.com.tr
