Submitted 3 months ago by Pro@programming.dev to technology@lemmy.world
https://en.setopati.com/social/165133
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/36863320
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- Reddit.
Viber, WeTalk, TikTok, Nimbuzz, and Poppo Live are already registered.
Similarly, Telegram and Global Diary are in the process of registration.
Social media platforms to be blocked:
- Facebook Messenger
- YouTube
- X (formerly Twitter)
- Snapchat
- Discord
- Signal
- Threads
- Quora
- Tumblr
- Clubhouse
- Mastodon
- Rumble
- MeWe
- VK
- Line
- IMO
- Zalo
- Soul
- Hamro Patro
Other Sources
- Associated Press; - The Hindu.
Signal:
Settings -> Privacy -> Advanced -> Censorship Circumvention
Signal is a social media platform?
It’s in the “to be blocked” list posted.
signal has stories now, so I’d say yes
Depends on how you want to look at it. They have “stories” which could most certainly be considered that.
OK so three things:
Modern laws rarely if ever have anything to do with what they claim to be changing. Just figure out where the graft is flowing and that’s your answer. There’s no graft to be had with mastodon because nobody us making any money there. If an instance suddenly started getting popular and making money in Nepal then it gets on their radar and they have to start paying bribes to continue operating just like the big guys, and there will be no room at all for a ‘medium guy’ who makes a little profit but not enough to comply with the requirements of corruption.
It doesn’t need to make money, it just needs to be a “Problem”.
A number of these sites try hard to Filter out VPN users.
Nepal went full iron curtain.
None of the platforms allowed employs E2E encryption, does it?
Telegram allowed. It does not e2e encrypt by default. How will they make sure that option isn’t chosen by Nepalese?
They only implement DNS blocking so you have to change your DNS and everything will work again — this is also the case with their ban on porn sites. It’s just an inconvenience to the citizens, all because they aren’t competent enough to manage “criminal activites”.
I'm not sure what the big deal is here. They're dealing with a known rise in crime and fraud. this isn't just a bogeyman "save the children" thing, it's that they want to have access to the platform to keep things safe for their people and everyone else.
I think it's more than reasonable to have a specific point of contact if there's any issues related to a criminal investigation. And the lack of response from the Big Two is evidence that they don't care.
Assocks. They don’t need (backend-level) access to the platform in order to fight that. They just have to do good, boots-on-the-ground detective work. In other words, earn their salaries. We don’t precime-inalize silverware companies because people may use kitchen knives to kill each other.
No, but if one brand of knife is used in the majority of a category of crimes, it's fair that the government should have a clear point of contact with the manufacturer to help identify why it's happening and how it can be prevented.
Realize this: The Nepalese government is being treated the same way as a "normal" person - they're having trouble prosecuting these crimes because they're not being given any access to hidden or deleted posts. They're having to go though the useless fake support chats and the like. What they're demanding, mostly, is that they have a known human being who will cooperate with the government and to whom they have a clear and unambiguous connection. Frankly speaking, I think that ought to be a bare-minimum for any company anywhere. I don't support corporate sovereignty or corporate personhood. If you have a company operating in a nation, that nation should always have a clear point of contact for law enforcement & taxation purposes, as well as more general communication when needed.
… Long farting noise
Bye Nepal, see you again after you line up all you tie-wearers against the wall
Wao, Nepal is another part of the UK. Learning something new every day.
shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
I wish them luck banning Mastodon, Lemmy, and Nostr… Oh wait, they cant
Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I am curious how they are planning to ban Mastodon. I am assuming they are going to block say the top 25 instances?
magguzu@midwest.social 3 months ago
Hate to say it but it honestly doesn’t sound crazy hard to just block any insurance that pops up. Yes it’s whack a mole but if it’s an automated script, it can just crawl through a backdoor instance and ban any domain it sees.
DFX4509B_2@lemmy.org 3 months ago
Blocking the domains connected to it is the only way I can think of.
shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
And as we all know, that would not ban it entirely. They’d have to block every instance, every new instance that comes online, the main web page, the code repository, etc., to even have a hope of banning it.
Das_Fossil@feddit.org 3 months ago
Its totaly easy:
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.
shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
Are there any instance administrators in Nepal to jail?
EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 3 months ago
Not familiar with the other examples, but Lemmy doesn’t need an app. Can get to it via browser. Maybe the others need one?
Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 3 months ago
Well, if start by blocking the clients, then block any webpage or server sending / receiving ActivityPub packets at the ISP level, they could possibly cut it off. Heck, just spin up a new Mastodon or Lemmy server, send out a ping, and have every Nepalese ISP & mobile provider block all domains and IPs that respond.
shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
They’re still tor.