Nepal moves to block Facebook, X, YouTube and others

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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]▶

>>45137771 #

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. aucisson_masque ◴[05 Sep 25 21:10 UTC] No.45143674[source]▶

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how to you prosecute a company that isn't represented in your country ? and how do you get someone, I mean a person, in front of court ?

As far as I know, Nepal can't send its police to America to arrest Facebook CEO and bring him back.

Let's just pretend for a second: Meta deliberately allows pedophiles to organize themselves and abduct Nepalese kids. Nepal government can only publicly object, eventually block Facebook access and that's all ? Nepalese wouldn't be very happy about that.

I am surprised there are even countries where these big corporations don't already have legal representation. It's not like it's expensive compared to what they earn from Nepalese.

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