Censorship of TikTok

SAN FRANCISCO - I was really rooting for TikTok.

In 2020, when the Trump administration first tried to force TikTok's Chinese owner, ByteDance, to sell the app or risk having it shut down, I argued that banning TikTok in the United States would do more harm than good.

Nepal has banned the Chinese app TikTok because it considers its content harmful to social harmony, the BBC reported.

The decision comes days after the introduction of a new rule requiring companies that own social networks to open their liaison offices in the country.

TikTok has about a billion monthly users, but is banned in several countries, including India.