Banning social media could disrupt Nepal's entire internet service
Banning social media could disrupt Nepal's entire internet service Earlier, the government had banned TikTok. TikTok could not be shut down immediately. It was very difficult for us to do so. It took about a month. Even though big mobile service and internet service providers did it immediately, other small operators could not. Just because you say you want to shut down a social media site, it does not mean it will be shut down overnight. It takes some time. Technically, it will be shut down gradually. Service providers may shut it down, but there is no guarantee that users will stop using the banned platform. In the case of TikTok, even though we shut it down after a month, the bandwidth consumed by TikTok also decreased dramatically. We were happy for a moment, saying that bandwidth was saved. After that, the use of VPNs gradually started increasing. After TikTok was shut down, the level of VPN use we saw was unprecedented. One-third of the total internet traffic used by TikTok ...