{"id":962090,"date":"2025-09-16T12:25:40","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T06:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=962090"},"modified":"2025-09-16T12:25:40","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T06:55:40","slug":"nepal-protest-genz-used-this-secret-chat-app-after-govt-banned-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/16\/nepal-protest-genz-used-this-secret-chat-app-after-govt-banned-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Nepal protest: GenZ used this \u2018secret chat app\u2019 after govt banned social media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Your phone could spark a political movement even when every app you use is blocked. At least that\u2019s what happened in Nepal recently. As social media bans swept across the country and protests roared in Kathmandu, a simple tool called Bitchat became a lifeline for thousands.<\/p>\n<p>What happened in Nepal?<br \/>\nIt all escalated this month when the Nepali government blocked platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube, pushing Gen Z to the streets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your phone could spark a political movement even when every app you use is blocked. At least that\u2019s what happened in Nepal recently. As social media bans swept across the country and protests roared in Kathmandu, a simple tool called Bitchat became a lifeline for thousands. What happened in Nepal? It all escalated this month when the Nepali government blocked platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube, pushing Gen Z to the streets.<\/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":[15,51,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-962090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-it-2-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962090","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=962090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=962090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=962090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=962090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}