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Nepal moves to block Facebook, X, YouTube and others

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286 points saikatsg | 4 comments | 05 Sep 25 11:31 UTC | HN request time: 0.004s | source
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dahsameer ◴[05 Sep 25 12:42 UTC] No.45137841[source]▶
I'm from Nepal. The bans are implemented in a pretty straightforward way: ISPs simply don't resolve DNS queries for these services. switch your DNS, and you're good to go. There are 26 apps that were banned: Facebook, Facebook Messenger, Instagram, YouTube, WhatsApp, Twitter, LinkedIn, Snapchat, Reddit, Discord, Pinterest, Signal, Threads, WeChat, Quora, Tumblr, Clubhouse, Mastodon, MeWe, Rumble, VK, Line, IMO, Zalo, Soul, and Hamro Patro.
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1. lighttower ◴[05 Sep 25 15:05 UTC] No.45139431[source]▶
TikTok is still allowed? Isn't it the most damaging?
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2. bee_rider ◴[05 Sep 25 15:26 UTC] No.45139680[source]▶
I think it less like: governments see social media sites as damaging, so they ban them.

It is more like: a lot of people see social media sites as damaging, so they don’t particularly care when their governments ban them for whatever arbitrary reasons the governments come up with.

So, I’d expect the more that social media sites come back online to reflect their responsiveness to dealing with government demands, not the damaging-ness.

3. lawlessone ◴[05 Sep 25 19:29 UTC] No.45142640[source]▶
>Isn't it the most damaging?

Depends on who you ask. I'd consider it damaging but nowhere near as damaging as X in recent times. And would consider FB worse that both for sheer the hysteria it generates in the old.

4. noselasd ◴[05 Sep 25 21:00 UTC] No.45143550[source]▶
TikTok complied with their regulation last year. The regulations basically requires social media platforms with > 1 million nepalese accounts to get a license to operate in Nepal.

The bill and requirments doesn't seem unreasonable, atleast according to https://www.lawgandhi.com/social-media-bill-2081-2025/