Nepal has lifted a ban on social media platforms following mass protests and the killing of 19 people in clashes with security forces, a government minister said.
Cabinet spokesman and Minister of Communication and Information Technology Prithvi Subba Gurung said early on Tuesday that the government had rolled back the social media ban imposed last week.
In these situations, governments treat things like “Whatsapp” or “telegram” as social media.
They don’t ban social media so tech corps don’t fuck their population. They ban social media so their population can’t organize against them.
Nepal isn’t banning them for those reasons though. Nepal is very much a country that is trying to not lose its people to the tech corps so they passed a law requiring the tech corps to register to operate in the country, something that is required in numerous other countries.
Must be why they included Signal and Hamro Patro, a Nepalese app with features including news, horoscope, foreign exchange rates, podcasts and Nepali FM radio stations.
This was about information control and limiting the organization options of the people.