At least 10 people have been killed in Nepal after protests over a government ban on dozens of social media platforms – including Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and X – led to violent clashes with police.
The government, led by the prime minister, KP Sharma Oli, has faced mounting criticism after imposing a ban on 26 prominent social media platforms and messaging apps that it says have failed to comply with new regulations.
The protest was not only about the social media ban, people didn’t give away their lives for a “social media company”, no matter what some imbeciles claim, this is also parroted by international news agencies. Nepal has a culture of corruption centered around the three major parties that has achieved a crescendo with a slew of outrageous bills (some of the more egregious being: tracking all movements of tourists, ministers getting to set their own pay, removing age limits for public posts), the straw that broke the camel’s back was the ban on social media with their vague requirements that was clearly a way to impose control. And by the way, they didn’t shoot adults, they shot and killed kids that came from school with their bags still on them, who are still unidentified by the way.
I’d even add that even if this were only protesting the social media ban, it would be totally valid unless you like being cucked by your government. You yourself and the community should be an agent in controlling one’s problems surrounding things like social media not your government that thinks you don’t have enough agency for it.
I know it’s a serious thing and the reasons for the ban are not what I am thinking of - but if my government banned Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and X I would probably cheer to them
Idk if you’re American but trump can’t get enough musk and cuckerburg dick
Which goes to show how much of their society’s communication relies on corporate solutions instead of local ones. Similar bans in Russia recently have devastated ‘usual’ lines of communication for people there.
The main agenda of the protest is rising corruption and censorship in Nepal.
That’s unreal, I cannot believe how quick some of these governments open fire on their own citizens and expect no response
I can (sadly) believe it easily. What gets me every time, though, is that there are people just itching for a chance to unload live ammo on their fellow compatriots. There has never been a shortage of psychopath strongmen who are willing to sacrifice everything (except themselves and their own), but what I simply cannot grasp for the life of me is that there are monsters willing to do that for just a few peanuts a month more than the poor bastard they’re murdering. Yet, there’s tens of thousands of them and they’re queueing up for the chance to do this.
That will simply never compute in my mind. Can’t possibly wrap my limited brain around it, never will.
