{"id":960220,"date":"2025-09-09T11:24:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T05:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=960220"},"modified":"2025-09-09T11:24:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T05:54:10","slug":"nepal-bans-facebook-instagram-youtube-and-twitter-whats-behind-the-protests-in-which-several-people-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/09\/nepal-bans-facebook-instagram-youtube-and-twitter-whats-behind-the-protests-in-which-several-people-killed\/","title":{"rendered":"Nepal bans Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Twitter: What&#8217;s behind the protests in which several people killed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Days after Nepal\u2019s government blocked 26 unregistered social media platforms, including Facebook, YouTube and X (formerly Twitter), at least 10 protesters have been killed and 87 injured in Nepal\u2019s capital following protests that erupted on Monday (September 8). Police used rubber bullets, tear gas and water cannons to disperse a massive crowd, a report said, adding that the demonstrators demanded an end to the ban on several social media platforms.<\/p>\n<p>According to news agency AFP, the ban on 26 social media platforms left millions of users &#8220;angry and confused.&#8221; As a crowd of young demonstrators swelled in Kathmandu, they pushed into a restricted area near the parliament building.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Days after Nepal\u2019s government blocked 26 unregistered social media platforms, including Facebook, YouTube and X (formerly Twitter), at least 10 protesters have been killed and 87 injured in Nepal\u2019s capital following protests that erupted on Monday (September 8). Police used rubber bullets, tear gas and water cannons to disperse a massive crowd, a report said, adding that the demonstrators demanded an end to the ban on several social media platforms. According to news agency AFP, the ban on 26 social media platforms left millions of users &#8220;angry and confused.&#8221; As a crowd of young demonstrators swelled in Kathmandu, they pushed [&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-960220","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\/960220","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=960220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=960220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=960220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=960220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}