Dec 01, Kathmandu- Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda has claimed that social diseases and pandemics have spread in Nepali society through the social network TiTok.

Prime Minister Prachanda, while writing a comprehensive reply to 16 writ petitions registered in the Supreme Court, claimed that due to TikTok, technological pollution (digital pollution) is increasing in Nepali society and it is necessary to control it.

In a written reply, Prime Minister Dahal said, "Tiktok is seen to be used positively as well as negatively, and technological pollution is spreading as a social disease and epidemic, so it has been decided to ban its use for the protection of society and the nation as a whole from its overall negative aspects and protecting the interests of the majority of citizens."

The prime minister claims that Tiktok has destroyed the harmony in Nepali society, spread hatred, expressed expressions that undermine social tolerance, and has increased the sharing of obscene content. He has claimed that he had to ban because of the increase in distortions such as personal killings, posting passionate expressions inspired by the feeling of revenge.

In a written reply, Prime Minister Dahal said, "Since Tiktok has created the aforementioned distortions, if it is not stopped immediately, it may lead to a socially dangerous situation in the future, and the decision made to ban the use of Tiktok after analyzing both the immediate and long-term effects cannot be said otherwise."

In a three-page written reply, Prime Minister Prachanda has requested that the writ petition be dismissed, saying that it is the duty of the government, the judiciary and all other bodies to create a dynamic society by maintaining peace, security and a non-discrimination society.

The prime minister has claimed that due to the increasing use of TikTok, social behaviors are being eroded, and the use of TikTok has negatively affected the physical, mental and other overall development of children.

In his written reply, saying that the claim that the right to freedom of thought and expression as given by the constitution has been curtailed due to the ban on TikTok is not true, Prime Minister Dahal has claimed that there is no hindrance in banning activities that disturb communal harmony, abuse, public etiquette and morals.

In his written reply, he claimed that Tiktok has disrupted the social harmony in Nepali society and has also increased the challenge of citizens' privacy and national security. In a written reply, he said, "There is a need to ban the use of TikTok due to reasons such as national security, personal privacy, cultural deviation, ease of use, false information, data leakage and cyber security."

Prime Minister Dahal has indicated that after the decision to ban Tiktok immediately, it is not long-term. He claims that efforts are being made to ensure moderate and frugal use of social media including Tik Tok and to regulate it.

Prime Minister Dahal claims that since the government has used its vested rights to ban Tiktok, saying that it is trying to make a legal arrangement for automatic removal of publication and transmission of illegal content, controlling negative aspects, bringing it under the scope of taxation, the court should not say otherwise.

On 27 Kartik, 2080, the government decided to shut down Tiktok in Nepal. Soon after the decision, the Minister of Communication and Information Technology Rekha Sharma said that Tiktok was banned because of problems in social relations and family relations.

Before the government decided to ban TikTok, it had issued guidelines for the operation and regulation of social media. The decision to ban TikTok was made without fully implementing the guidelines.

Soon after the opening of the court after the Tihar holiday, 16 writ petitions related to the Tiktok ban have been registered in the Supreme Court. Although the bench of Justice Binod Sharma refused to issue an interim order, it prioritized to the case and ordered the government to submit a written reply within 15 December. There will be a regular hearing on this dispute in the Supreme Court next Tuesday (Mangsir 19).