Minister of Communication and Information Technology Prithvisubba Gurung has claimed that the social media bill has been introduced to take action against social media that destroy social harmony and religious tolerance. On Tuesday, in a program organized on the occasion of Nepal Telecom's anniversary, he said that social media is becoming chaotic and due to the demand of ordinary citizens to regulate it, the bill on social media has been introduced.

The demand of many is that social media should be regulated, minister. This is not democracy, is it not democracy. That is why we have submitted a bill to regulate the use, operation and regulation of social media. The protest has started little by little. "There will be opposition in democracy," said Minister Gurung.

Breaking social harmony, spreading hatred, and breaking religious tolerance is treason, he said. Communications Minister Gurung also said that cybercrime incidents are increasing in the country and he is preparing a draft of the Cybercrime Control Act to control it. He said that if any social networks are not registered, they will be banned. 

said that currently only Tiktok is the registered and operating social network in Nepal and Meta (Facebook), Instagram, WhatsApp and other social networks have also been publicly called for registration. We said to Tiktok, you should work for our country in tourism. He is working. We cannot grasp how much bullying is being done by misusing AI. Because they are not coming with us. What can we do to help us when we use Meta, Facebook, Instagram? Help us in health, help in our industry. Help good governance to work. We will not let them run without doing that,' he said.