Dec 01, Kathmandu- Yuvraj Paudel, advocate and coordinator of Nepal Samajwadi Morcha, has submitted a petition to the government, demanding that various means of social media should be closed and operated only after regulation. Writing a letter to the Minister of Communication and Information Technology Rekha Sharma on Thursday, he has submitted a request demanding to close social media channels and to operate them only after they are regulated.

He mentioned that the incidents of various crimes are increasing through social networks, especially Facebook IDs, and there is a problem in bringing the culprits to the scope of necessary action in cases of fake accounts.

"If it is necessary to run Facebook in Nepal, we demand that Facebook's parent company Meta be brought under the law and tax and make necessary arrangements so that Nepali Facebook users can only open Facebook accounts with official documents and details," he wrote in the petition, "Currently, various people in Nepal have opened YouTube channels through YouTube to increase criminal thinking, cause disharmony, character assassination, make false reports, news, etc., create confusion, etc., so it is necessary to bring the YouTube channel under the scope of law and tax."

Similarly, he has demanded that the person concerned with opening a YouTube channel can keep their official documents and personal details and register them with the Nepal government agency.

He has drawn the attention of the Minister of Communication to immediately close Facebook, YouTube and Instagram before arranging that arrangement and create a certain standard to operate only after that.

Similarly, he has requested to arrange for the immediate deletion of Facebook accounts, YouTube channels and Instagram accounts without identification. Earlier, Poudel had also sent a petition to the Minister of Communications with the demand to ban Tiktok.