Why did the government take the unpleasant decision to close social networks including Facebook? What is its background and where will its impact reach?
What you should know
The government has decided to ban social networks that are not listed in the Ministry of Communications. The government took such a decision on Thursday after the deadline for social media platforms to be listed compulsorily within seven days expired on Wednesday night.
Why did the government take such an unpleasant decision? Where will the impact of this decision reach? And did a similar situation occur in other countries? We have tried to explain these and similar questions in five questions and answers.
Earlier, the government decided to close Tiktok on 27 October 2080 . Only after 9 months after Tiktok submitted a letter to the Ministry of Communications that it was ready to accept Nepal's conditions, on 6 August 2081, the government made a decision to remove the ban imposed on Tiktok. It was the government's intention that other social networks like Tiktok should also be listed in Nepal following the government's conditions. That's why the government had issued notices asking the platforms to be listed five times.
On 15 November 2080, the government requested that individuals, companies or organizations who want to operate a social network platform be listed in the ministry within three months . After this, the ministry has released similar information many times. Meanwhile, a full bench of nine judges including Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Vishwambhar Prasad Shrestha released the full text of the verdict on August 2nd in the contempt of court case against 'Sidhakura.com'. In which the Supreme Court issued an order in the name of the government to use social networks only after registration. In all this background, the government has taken an unpleasant decision to ban social media. Meanwhile, what did the government do? How many times did you correspond?
a deadline of 7 days on August 12, 2082. now ke kke ?
doesn't work anymore ?
After the popular social network does not work, it will also affect the money coming into Nepal through content creators ?
What can happen now ?
14 separate writs 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 it is against international practice to ban Tiktok without proper legal provisions and start monitoring other apps as well. It remains to be seen how the latest decision will affect freedom of expression and how the organizations working on human rights and freedom of expression will respond to it.
