{"id":42802,"date":"2025-09-08T13:06:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T13:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/08\/at-least-16-people-killed-during-protests-against-nepals-social-media-ban\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T13:06:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T13:06:11","slug":"at-least-16-people-killed-during-protests-against-nepals-social-media-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/08\/at-least-16-people-killed-during-protests-against-nepals-social-media-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"At least 16 people killed during protests against Nepal\u2019s social media ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Free speech demonstrations came after government said Facebook and others failed to follow new regulations<\/p>\n<p>At least 16 people have been killed during protests in Nepal over a government ban on dozens of social media platforms including Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and X.<\/p>\n<p>The government, led by the prime minister, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/profile\/kp-sharma-oli\">KP Sharma Oli<\/a>, has faced mounting criticism after imposing a ban on 26 prominent social media platforms and messaging apps that it says have failed to comply with new regulations.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/08\/nepal-bans-26-social-media-sites-including-x-whatsapp-and-youtube\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Free speech demonstrations came after government said Facebook and others failed to follow new regulations At least 16 people have been killed during protests in Nepal over a government ban on dozens of social media platforms including Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and X. The government, led by the prime minister, KP Sharma Oli, has faced mounting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}