Das_Fossil

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Nepal bans social media(Facebook, X, Reddit, Mastodon, Discord, Signal, YouTube and more) for failing to register with the government; Only 7 to be open(Viber, TikTok, Telegram and more) in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] Das_Fossil@feddit.org 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Websites you can block via DNS - yes, i know that this can also be fairly easy circumvented - but the folks who know this are NOT the target audience for state action like that.

Nepal bans social media(Facebook, X, Reddit, Mastodon, Discord, Signal, YouTube and more) for failing to register with the government; Only 7 to be open(Viber, TikTok, Telegram and more) in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] Das_Fossil@feddit.org 3 points 20 hours ago

Well... we will see

Nepal bans social media(Facebook, X, Reddit, Mastodon, Discord, Signal, YouTube and more) for failing to register with the government; Only 7 to be open(Viber, TikTok, Telegram and more) in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] Das_Fossil@feddit.org 7 points 20 hours ago (5 children)

Its totaly easy:

  1. Ban the apps
  2. Block major instances
  3. Jail some instance admins who doesn't shut down (and make a show out of it)

No, you will not get the hobby revolutionary this way who really wants to "fight the man", but you surely will scare away the nepalese version of the average joe and with this effectively killing the networks there for main stream adoption.