Police reportedly opened fire on demonstrators in Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal, after protests against a government ban on most social media platforms swelled to enormous size on Monday. The official casualty count included 19 dead and 150 injured as of Monday afternoon.

The Nepalese government announced late last week that it would ban most of the big social media platforms – including X, Facebook, and YouTube – because they missed a deadline to “register” with the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology.

Only five platforms had complied as of Monday, and only one of them was a household name: China’s controversial TikTok. TikTok was among the first social media platforms to register with the Nepalese government, in order to get back online after it was b

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