{"id":74049,"date":"2025-09-08T14:41:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T05:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/08\/nepal-bans-26-social-media-sites-including-x-whatsapp-and-youtube"},"modified":"2025-09-08T14:41:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T05:41:00","slug":"nepal-bans-26-social-media-sites-including-x-whatsapp-and-youtube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=74049","title":{"rendered":"Nepal bans 26 social media sites including X, WhatsApp and YouTube"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Government in Kathmandu says companies failed to register under its new regulations, which have sparked a free speech outcry<\/p>\n<p>Nepal has imposed a ban on Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and more than a dozen other big social media sites after accusing them of failing to comply with regulations.<\/p>\n<p>The ban, which came into effect on Thursday midnight, drew criticism from human rights and press freedom groups, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/nepal\">Nepal\u2019s<\/a> government, led by prime minister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/profile\/kp-sharma-oli\">KP Sharma Oli<\/a>, accused of impeding freedom of speech and causing harm to businesses.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/08\/nepal-bans-26-social-media-sites-including-x-whatsapp-and-youtube\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government in Kathmandu says companies failed to register under its new regulations, which have sparked a free speech outcryNepal has imposed a ban on Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and more than a dozen other big social media sites after accusing them &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"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":[86,2615,241,235],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-meta","category-nepal","category-social-media"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74049","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\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74059,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74049\/revisions\/74059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}