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For anyone out of the loop (from the AP / quoted in the article) :
In particular, many young people are angry that the children of political leaders—so-called Nepo Kids—seem to enjoy luxury lifestyles and numerous advantages while most youth struggle to find work.
Cops firing live rounds at kids, killing almost 20 and injuring about 100 might have something to do with them snapping as well...
Typical Newsweek, I've seen several people who have worked in Nepal say that corruption was spiraling out of control and people have been livid about it for months. The protests were already ramping up, which is why social media platforms were cut off, so videos about the corruption and investigations and means to plan protests were cut off. The "they didn't register in time" excuse is for the government to save face internationally.
Several social media companies registered in time just fine and weren’t cut off so no, I think that’s just an excuse for the protestors.
How dumb can you be
how dumb can you be? You think people that are protesting over social media bans are actually cognizant of the actual effects of social media? or what the law actually entailed? Look at the protests in the US over TikTok. People just want social media, they don't care the effects.
The truth of the matter is (before all the killings) is that all the 'social media companies' had to do was fill out a fucking form and they didn't do it. Then people pissed about missing their feeds went out and blamed it on the government, when it was completely the social media companies' faults. Sure, it sounds like the government was doing a lot of other shit, but acting like the government didn't give the companies time to register is just an absolute lie, there were several companies that managed just fine and they didn't get blocked. If the goal was blocking social media completely then they wouldn't have bothered with the registration, they just would have blocked.
People need to stop giving social media companies the benefit of the doubt. Now the situation is so out of control that people get to blame the government blocking social media as a reason to not do any sort of regulation against these tech companies in other countries. Now when a law in X country pops up saying "we need to regulate FB, TikTok, etc" you're going to get people referencing Nepal as a reason not to, even if FB/etc are literally causing genocides.
To be clear: this is NOT a commentary on whatever other bs the government is doing or the protesters are protesting. This is ONLY a comment on the OP i replied to stating
which is just a bald faced lie since they didn't cut off any social media that literally filled out a form.
Err, the law requiring social media to register also has very broad provisions for government mandated removal of content from these social media. So it's not exactly unlikely that that would have been the next step after the registration deadline had passed.
You are completely right that social media needs some form of regulation to avoid their nasty sides btw. But that's not what this law was seemingly intent on doing.
'registered' just means 'Will censor information about government corruption for profit'
no, it means "filled out a form with contact info".
Nepali Nepos?