{"id":960042,"date":"2025-09-08T12:05:50","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T06:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=960042"},"modified":"2025-09-08T13:22:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T07:52:25","slug":"youth-seethe-at-overnight-social-media-ban-in-nepal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/08\/youth-seethe-at-overnight-social-media-ban-in-nepal\/","title":{"rendered":"Youth seethe at overnight social media ban in Nepal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With access to 26 major platforms cut off overnight, thousands of young Nepalis across the country have called for a protest Monday against what they said was a \u201cdigitally repressive\u201d move by the government in Kathmandu. Demonstrations are expected to begin at 9am, with organisers calling the blackout a \u201cdirect assault on speech, work and connectivity\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Many users, particularly in urban areas, scrambled for VPNs \u2014 virtual private networks that became lifelines to a world that had abruptly become inaccessible. By midday, Google Trends showed searches for \u201cVPN for Nepal\u201d had surged by more than 400% overnight. Proxy browsers, DNS tweaks and foreign eSIMs also became part of the workaround toolkit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With access to 26 major platforms cut off overnight, thousands of young Nepalis across the country have called for a protest Monday against what they said was a \u201cdigitally repressive\u201d move by the government in Kathmandu. Demonstrations are expected to begin at 9am, with organisers calling the blackout a \u201cdirect assault on speech, work and connectivity\u201d. Many users, particularly in urban areas, scrambled for VPNs \u2014 virtual private networks that became lifelines to a world that had abruptly become inaccessible. By midday, Google Trends showed searches for \u201cVPN for Nepal\u201d had surged by more than 400% overnight. Proxy browsers, DNS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-960042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=960042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=960042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=960042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=960042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}