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Nepal moves to block Facebook, X, YouTube and others

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286 points saikatsg | 2 comments | 05 Sep 25 11:31 UTC | HN request time: 0.028s | source
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mastazi ◴[05 Sep 25 12:33 UTC] No.45137771[source]▶
> Companies were given a deadline of Wednesday to register with the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology and provide a local contact, grievance handler and person responsible for self-regulation – or face shutdown.

Maybe I'm missing something but it seems the requirements were pretty reasonable? I wonder why the affected companies decided to ignore them.

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gman83 ◴[05 Sep 25 12:40 UTC] No.45137823[source]▶
I don't know Nepal's political situation, but I could imagine companies not wanting to have a potential hostage that they're directly responsible for in more authoritarian countries. Why does there have to be a contact in the country? Couldn't they have a contact outside the country?
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1. mastazi ◴[05 Sep 25 13:04 UTC] No.45138068[source]▶
this is a list of Google offices. Some of these are in countries that are classified as not free according to most democracy indexes.

https://about.google/company-info/locations/

Same story with Facebook:

https://www.metacareers.com/locations/

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2. NaomiLehman ◴[05 Sep 25 15:55 UTC] No.45139994[source]▶
Even their HQ is in a country that is classified as a "flawed democracy," and might be classified as a "hybrid regime" in 2025 wink, wink