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Nepal decides to ban TikTok (kathmandupost.com)
submitted 2 years ago by [M, B] to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Nepal decides to ban TikTok::A Cabinet meeting on Monday took the decision to ban the social media app.

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[–] 72 points 2 years ago (2 children)

in nepal posting in "vulgar" language is also forbidden by law, as is stuff like stating that you are poly on social media, so them passing another overreaching censorship law is no surprise.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    um… where did you get that information?

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    How about you read the one link you are commenting on before asking for another? It is in the article.

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  • [+] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)
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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    I got my information from the article about the new social media rules within that article here:

    https://kathmandupost.com/national/2023/11/10/cabinet-passes-rules-to-regulate-social-media

    the relevant passage:

    The new rule also bars any post promoting wrong activities such as child labour, human trafficking, child marriage or polygamy.

    so for nepal human trafficking and polygamy is in the same category of "wrong activities".

    What do you mean its not the point? its literally a crime to post "vulgar" language, like you said a catch all term that they can use to censor anything they deem "vulgar". How is this not a law designed to censor?

    For clarity, I am not the person you replied to, I wrote the comment above. Imo Usernames are a bit hard to see on some frontends!

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  • [–] -2 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    so for nepal human trafficking and polygamy is in the same category of “wrong activities”.

    There's a substantive degree of overlap, particularly in parts of the world where young women are sold by desperate parents and criminal cartels for the pleasure of old perverts. This isn't Sam Bankman Fried and three if his closest money launderers in a sex pile. This is cloaking sex trafficking under the cover of marriage.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    The law did not ban polyamory, it is already illegal in nepal, so there is no "cover of marriage" there. It banned posting pro poly posts online. That is pretty harsh. Just because criminals use it does not mean stating your opinion had to be banned!

    The only explanation I can come up with is that they just banned a bunch of stuff the legislators deemed immoral. I dont know enough about nepal to say that with any certainty, but my hunch is that pro-poly messaging may have been banned because of the muslim minority.

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