{"id":59826,"date":"2023-11-14T09:26:18","date_gmt":"2023-11-14T00:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/nov\/14\/nepal-tiktok-ban-social-harmony-why"},"modified":"2023-11-14T09:26:18","modified_gmt":"2023-11-14T00:26:18","slug":"nepal-says-it-will-ban-tiktok-citing-effect-on-social-harmony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=59826","title":{"rendered":"Nepal says it will ban TikTok, citing effect on \u2018social harmony\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minister for communications and information technology says the popular video-sharing platform \u2018disrupts family structures\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Nepal has said it will ban TikTok, citing negative effects on the country\u2019s \u201csocial harmony\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The popular video-sharing platform, which has around a billion monthly users, has faced restrictions in many countries for alleged breaches of data rules and for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/sep\/28\/tiktok-videos-deadly-bodybuilding-drugs-viewed-young-people-uk\">potentially harmful impact on youth<\/a> of some content.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/nov\/14\/nepal-tiktok-ban-social-harmony-why\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minister for communications and information technology says the popular video-sharing platform \u2018disrupts family structures\u2019Nepal has said it will ban TikTok, citing negative effects on the country\u2019s \u201csocial harmony\u201d.The popular video-sharing platform, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[241,61,58,1496,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nepal","category-south-and-central-asia","category-technology","category-tiktok","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59827,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59826\/revisions\/59827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}