Nepal decides to ban TikTok

in nepal posting in "vulgar" language is also forbidden by law, as is stuff like stating that you are poly on social media, so them passing another overreaching censorship law is no surprise.

Source?
- Found it linked in an article within the article here toward the bottom.
um… where did you get that information?
- How about you read the one link you are commenting on before asking for another? It is in the article.

I'm not surprised, it's Chinese spyware

"A lie told often enough becomes true."
- Where’s the lie?
When the media explains mumbo-jumbo about technology.
it's Chinese spyware
:-/

Please ban YT shorts too.

- well fighting against propaganda is a good thing
I have seen it's true face. Social media is an extended gutter and the gutter is full of ads and when the drains finally scab over all the vermin will drown. The accumulated filth of all their pop-ups and clickbait will foam up about their waists and and all the reply guys and soy boys will look up and shout "save us!"... and I'll look down and whisper... "No."
- Is that Watchmen?
  I recognize that last line, but can't remember where it's from.
https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/youtube-shorts-block/
Why? I love Shorts! Takes me back to the days of early YouTube, when not everything had to be a 30+ minute video and you could still discover small unknown channels just from browsing. Shorts is the best thing to happen to YouTube since they added HD support back in 2010.
Please explain yourself.

I don't really like Tiktok. But, forcing the choice on people probably isn't the best idea either.

It's CCP spyware. It should be banned everywhere.
- There's plenty of U.S. equivalents. What's your point?
- What about American Spy Ware?
- Oh no is the CCP going to arrest me?
Its about time to ban TikTok. Look what kind of youth have become. Kids doing crazy things for the "fame" of the internet - beating other kids to death, stealing cars, doing drugs, and all minds of illegal stuff just for fun and have lots of "likes". My brother spends hours a day on TikTok he cant keep focused for a long time anymore. I dont trust him anymore because he forgets things all the time now. He is loosing lots of money and now in a huge debts because he was buying things too expensive for him just to upload pics and videos to be "recognised" n stuff... You can say that its my brothers fault, but TikTok and social media is dragging him more than anything. And it happens for a lot of people

Based

I've had it, a long with X and everything meta/Facebook banned on my home network for a while now. It's been great.

Good.

Yay! As a father, that app makes me nervous

Edit: wow just coming back to this, I think I may have just started a war

Posted unironically on social media that does far less patrolling and safety restrictions for children
- Yeah but to be fair it's not like children, or even adults really, are flocking to this app.
Get your kids a dumbphone.
They'll thank you later.
Why? It's no different than any western social media. In fact, in my experience, western media tries to push their agendas on me, while my Tiktok is just full of random tech videos and cats.
- "Random" lmao
  They show you exactly what their algorithm thinks gets you the most addicted and wants you to interact with the app in any way possible. Most of the time that's achieved by making you feel negative emotions
- Agreed, we should ban them all
- That's usually true at first, showing users content they like is gratifying to the user, but satisfied users don't stay on the app. So for example, I like motorcycles, humor, tech, dog content, and poker. Tik Tok could show me relevant videos and I'd maybe browse for a few minutes and then go do something else. But the algorithm kind of slows down the dopamine hits/relevant videos and starts inserting more content that is depressing/irrelevant... The algorithm uses the same logic that makes gambling so addictive, they'll make you feel like the dopamine hit is just around the corner, except it takes a bit longer to get there every time. "One more hand" ...>
  Facebook was at its worst in 2014-2018 or so. The algorithm became incredibly rage-inducing and pervasive. Facebook would intentionally show you content that you dislike(like right-wing bullshit) and if the more you interacted with it(especially if it was dislike) facebook would show you more and more of that. I was getting bombarded by extremism ideologies on Facebook and at the time I didn't understand that this was the algorithm.
  The Internet is no longer just "likes cat video, give more cat videos", and pushing that notion is uneducated. Tik Tok is the worst of all the apps by far, but all of the social media companies use sophisticated algorithms that intentionally fuck with you just to get you addicted to their apps.
  I think more people need to be informed on how these algorithms work and why they are so dangerous, especially to kids. Speaking of kids, there's a lot of content on TikTok which sexualizes underage teens. Also, I would block literally every thirst trap on TikTok that showed up in my feed, because that is simply the last thing I want to see on TikTok, yet the algorithm is so aggressive, it will continue to push content that you dislike so you are unsatisfied for longer.
  I've deleted Tik Tok a few times in the past but I haven't used it in about 2 years or so. Imagine how little the average person in this country knows about these algorithms.

Nepal and India both hate China

Lol. I remember when Trump said he was going to ban it and everyone was like nooooo. This is so concerning for free speech. Now that it's not Trump doing it, everyone says: Great, everyone should ban it.

The motivations to van the app matter. Trump wanted to ban it to censure the "wokes". Nepal bans it to prevent the spread of hate speach.
Social media and mostly the mainstream ones became an issue for democracy. These private companies must moderate before publishing. We must take them to account for what is on their platforms. Social medias are responsible for what is on them at the same level as the people posting it. If they don't want to comply, it's a ban.
I certainly wasn't like nooooo.
Even a broken clock is right twice a day.

All four of them

Fearmongering worked. Let's get more nations to follow suit so we can have an American company dominate short-form video formats instead of a Chinese one.

Nah, let's go with something Latin American this time. There are probably some countries which are waiting their turn. And which are not competing for world domination.
- I'm game. Might make it safer to travel.
- I'm down. Idk what's going on in that "memelos" community, but it looks fire. I wanna see what kind of content a LATAM run social media produces.

It incentivises stupidity, and controversial opinions, which gets more views and makes the "influencer" money.

Will they ban Facebook which facilitated a genocide?

edit: there are many a genocide lover on lemmy sadly.

Lol, people who don't entertain your loaded questions are genocide lovers?
Man, the fantasy worlds some of you live in.
- They're actually referencing an Amnesty Internation Report published in 2022 regarding Myanmar's cleansing against the Rohingya, and Facebook/WhatsApp's role in it.
Yeah, I guess you aren't allowed to draw the same comparisons with the US, when people here bitch about China. Honestly, it's very surprising.

Nepal sucks with this shit anyway.

Banning tiktok is just a dumb overreach.

I'll let them know to consult with you first before making these decisions.