Three months condition to Tiktok company
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The government has removed the ban on the social network Tiktok. Thursday's meeting of the Council of Ministers decided to remove the Tiktok ban. According to the Minister of Communication and Information Technology, Prithvisubba Gurung, the Tiktok company has been asked to fulfill the conditions given by the Nepalese government within three months.
10 months ago, the then Pushpa Kamal Dahal government banned the social media platform Tik Tok for disturbing social harmony. After Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli gave instructions to remove the ban, the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology discussed this matter with the stakeholders for a few days .
Oli had informally discussed the option of opening Tiktok a few days ago in the cabinet meeting saying that banning a certain social network would send the wrong message.
This week, Tiktok, which has repeatedly requested the government to lift the ban, submitted a letter to the Ministry of Communications stating that it is ready to accept Nepal's conditions. Tiktok's parent company, ByteDance, has submitted a letter saying that the ban will be lifted and that it is ready to operate according to the laws of Nepal, and the government has lifted the ban. In the
letter, Tiktok has committed to be listed in Nepal's Social Network Management Unit and to proceed within the scope of the laws here. All social media companies operating in Nepal are required to be registered in the unit under the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology. The directive was approved by the cabinet meeting last October (three days before the ban on tiktok). After
was closed by the government, users were running Tik Tok with the help of VPN and Open DNS. These companies have been claiming that it consumes international bandwidth and has a negative impact on the income of internet service providers in Nepal. were The representative of Ncell publicly stated that when Tiktok was closed, it lost an income equal to 600 million rupees per month .
14 separate petitions were filed in the Supreme Court against the Tiktok ban. The Asia Internet Coalition (AIC), a representative organization of social media companies such as Google, Apple, Meta, Amazon, Yahoo, LinkedIn, Rakuten, and Spotify, sent a letter to the government twice saying that banning Tiktok without proper legal provisions and preparing to monitor other apps is against international practice.  ;
