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Kathmandu: Nepal authority said on Monday that China's TikTok would be banned because the social harmony and goodwill were being disturbed by "misuse" of the popular video app and there was rising demand to control it.
Over 1,600 TikTok-related cyber crime cases have been registered over the last four years in Nepal, according to local media reports.
TikTok has already been either partially or completely banned by other countries, with many citing security concerns.
Nepal's Minister for Communications and Information Technology Rekha Sharma said the decision to ban TikTok had been made at a cabinet meeting earlier on Monday.
Colleagues are working on closing it technically," Sharma told Reuters.
Nepal Telecom Authority Chair Purushottam Khanal said that internet service providers have been asked to close the app.
"Some have already closed while others are doing it later today," Khanal told Reuters.
TikTok did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the matter. It has previously said such bans are "misguided" and that they are based on "misconceptions".
Opposition leaders in Nepal criticised the move, saying that it lacked "effectiveness, maturity and responsibility".
"There are many unwanted materials in other social media also. What must be done is to regulate and not restrict them," Pradeep Gyawali, former foreign minister and a senior leader of the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist), said.
Nepal's neighbour India banned TikTok along with dozens of other apps by Chinese developers in June 2020, saying that they could compromise national security and integrity.
Another South Asian country, Pakistan, has banned the app at least four times over what the country's government terms its "immoral and indecent" content.
Source: Reuters
尼泊爾表示將禁止中國AppsTiK Tok，原因是對該國社會和諧造成負面影響
尼泊爾當局週一表示，將禁止中國的 TikTok，因為這款流行視訊應用程式的「濫用」正在擾亂社會和諧和善意，並且控制它的要求不斷上升。
根據當地媒體報道，過去四年，尼泊爾共登記了 1,600 多起與 TikTok 相關的網路犯罪案件。
TikTok 已被其他國家部分或完全禁止，許多國家都以安全問題為由。
尼泊爾通訊和資訊技術部長雷卡夏爾馬 (Rekha Sharma) 表示，禁止 TikTok 的決定是在周一早些時候的內閣會議上做出的。
同事們正在努力從技術上關閉它，」夏爾馬告訴路透社。
尼泊爾電信管理局主席 Purushottam Khanal 表示，網路服務供應商已被要求關閉該應用程式。
卡納爾告訴路透社： “有些已經關閉，而另一些則在今天晚些時候關閉。”
TikTok 沒有立即回應對此事發表評論的請求。 該公司此前曾表示，此類禁令是“誤導性的”，並且是基於“誤解”。
尼泊爾反對派領袖批評此舉缺乏「有效性、成熟度和責任感」。
「其他社群媒體上也存在許多不需要的內容。必須做的是規範而不是限制它們，」前外交部長、尼泊爾共產黨（統一馬列）高級領導人普拉迪普·賈瓦利（Pradeep Gyawali）表示。
尼泊爾的鄰國印度於 2020 年 6 月禁止了 TikTok 以及中國開發商開發的數十種其他應用程序，稱它們可能損害國家安全和完整性。
另一個南亞國家巴基斯坦已至少四次禁止該應用程序，因為該國政府稱其內容為「不道德和不雅」的內容。
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