TikTok, the massively popular short video platform owned by ByteDance with over a billion active users worldwide, is being banned in Nepal.
A country (Nepal) with a population of around 30 million people. The New York Times was the first to announce the judgement, which occurred after the Himalayan nation mandated that social sites register with the local authorities. TikTok’s failure to regulate hate material was damaging “social harmony,” the paper added, citing the Nepal government.
It is the “stoking religious hate, violence, and sexual abuse” material on TikTok that has authorities in Nepal worried, as it has “led to clashes offline, forcing curfews and the deployment of the police.”
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As governments throughout the globe grow more cautious of China’s influence, TikTok’s stratospheric development has been greeted with pushback. In 2021, the app suffered an enormous setback when India banned it along with hundreds of other Chinese internet services, including the massive messaging platform WeChat, due to rising tensions along their shared border. Concerned that Beijing may be able to access user data, Montana banned TikTok in May, making it the first state in the United States to do so.
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TikTok has been subject to varying degrees of regulation in several other nations, including Canada and the United Kingdom, with the majority of these countries prohibiting their government personnel from using the algorithm-driven short video app.
For a long time, TikTok has said that it does not provide user information to the Chinese authorities. The app invested as much as $1.5 billion on “Project Texas” to provide data storage to the United States, its largest market.
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