TikTok’s nine-month ban in Nepal has been removed after businesses consented to help law enforcement with concerns pertaining to unsuitable and crime-related content.
TikTok, which was formerly blocked for upsetting social peace, is now trying to assist Nepal’s police in combating cybercrimes and content moderation. Prior to the ban, Nepal had recorded more than 1,600 crimes relating to TikTok. On Thursday, after more than nine months of banning the well-known video-sharing app for upsetting “social harmony and goodwill,” Nepal removed its ban on the Chinese-owned TikTok. A government source, who wished to remain anonymous, stated that the decision was made during a cabinet meeting following the company’s agreement to work with Nepali law enforcement to combat criminality associated with TikTok and control its content.
Beijing-based ByteDance, the parent firm of TikTok, expressed its satisfaction with the choice. The app was prohibited by the former government of Nepal in November due to worries about its usage. Prior to that, the Himalayan nation had more than 1,600 cybercrime charges relating to TikTok lodged during a four-year period.
Random demonstrations in the streets sprang out as some claimed the prohibition had shut down a venue for free speech and severed a source of income. The Internet Service Providers’ Association of Nepal reported that, at the time, TikTok had 2.2 million subscribers in the country. Nepal requested a specialized unit from TikTok to work around the clock with the Cyber Bureau of Nepal Police to help apprehend offenders and remove offensive content that has even resulted in suicides.
Quick, real-time user identification can be a useful tool for apprehending criminals and discouraging technology abuse, the bureau’s spokesman, Dipak Raj Awasti, told Reuters on Thursday. TikTok has been outlawed entirely or in part in a number of different nations, several of which have cited privacy and national security concerns.
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