Last Updated: November 13, 2023, 18:34 IST
India had banned TikTok for allegedly sharing knowledge with China
Nepal mentioned on Monday it will ban China’s TikTok, including that social concord and goodwill had been being disturbed by “misuse” of the favored video app and there was rising demand to management it.
KATHMANDU:Nepal mentioned on Monday it will ban China’s TikTok, including that social concord and goodwill had been being disturbed by “misuse” of the favored video app and there was rising demand to management it.
TikTok has already been both partially or fully banned by different international locations, with many citing safety issues.
More than 1,600 TikTok-associated cyber crime instances have been registered during the last 4 years in Nepal, in accordance to native media experiences.
Nepal’s Minister for Communications and Information Technology Rekha Sharma mentioned the choice to ban TikTok had been made at a cupboard assembly earlier on Monday.
“Colleagues are working on closing it technically,” Sharma informed Reuters.
Nepal Telecom Authority Chair Purushottam Khanal mentioned that web service suppliers have been requested to shut the app.
“Some have already closed while others are doing it later today,” Khanal informed Reuters.
TikTok didn’t instantly reply to a request for touch upon the matter. It has beforehand mentioned such bans are “misguided” and that they’re primarily based 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), mentioned.
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 at the least 4 occasions over what the nation’s authorities phrases its “immoral and indecent” content material.
(This story has not been edited by News18 employees and is revealed from a syndicated information company feed – Reuters)
