{"id":961274,"date":"2025-09-13T06:58:03","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T01:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=961274"},"modified":"2025-09-13T07:32:33","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T02:02:33","slug":"from-discord-to-bitchat-tech-at-the-heart-of-nepals-gen-z-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/13\/from-discord-to-bitchat-tech-at-the-heart-of-nepals-gen-z-protest\/","title":{"rendered":"From Discord to Bitchat: Tech at the heart of Nepal&#8217;s Gen Z Protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From sparking protests that toppled the prime minister to giving young people a platform to discuss their country&#8217;s political future, social media was key to Nepal&#8217;s extraordinary uprising this week. <\/p>\n<p>Fuelled in part by anger over flashy lifestyles flaunted by elites, young anti-corruption demonstrators mainly in their 20s rallied on Monday. <\/p>\n<p>The loose grouping, largely viewed as members of &#8220;Gen Z&#8221;, flooded the capital Kathmandu to demand an end to a ban on Facebook, YouTube and other popular sites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From sparking protests that toppled the prime minister to giving young people a platform to discuss their country&#8217;s political future, social media was key to Nepal&#8217;s extraordinary uprising this week. Fuelled in part by anger over flashy lifestyles flaunted by elites, young anti-corruption demonstrators mainly in their 20s rallied on Monday. The loose grouping, largely viewed as members of &#8220;Gen Z&#8221;, flooded the capital Kathmandu to demand an end to a ban on Facebook, YouTube and other popular sites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-961274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961274","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=961274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=961274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=961274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=961274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}