Nepal takes a Tik-Tok time out. Hello and you're listening to the Marketplace Morning Report live

from the BBC World Service. I'm Leanna Byrne, a very good morning to you. Nepal just banned

Tik-Tok because the country says the content is bad for social harmony.

It comes days after the country required social media firms to have liaison offices in the country.

But Nepal isn't the only place to have banned the app, India and the US state of Montana have too.

And some governments have even banned it from their devices.

The BBC Sir and Janituari has been following the story, so why has Nepal done this?

The Minister for Communications and Information Technology for Nepal has told our colleagues in BBC Nepali that the platform spreads malicious content. She added that the ban would come into effect

immediately and telecom authorities have been directed to implement the

decision. Now a member of the opposition in Nepal has questioned the government's decision to impose the ban

and said that it was an attempt to curb the freedom of expression and that officials should focus on regulating

the platform rather than implement these bans.

Tic Top has been under scrutiny from authorities around the world over concerns that data could be

passed to the Chinese government but with so many young people using it it's got

a billion monthly users and many of them fall between the ages of 16 to 24.

There are growing calls for more regulation around the content that appears on the app.

And what about TikTok's response?

TikTok says that it doesn't pass any data or information to the Chinese government.

It didn't respond to the BBC's request for comment on

this latest ban in Nepal, but Tik-Tocks a little bit different from the other

social media platforms like the Facebooks and the Instagrams and mainly because of as I mentioned so many young

people use it I mean not just that Tik-Tok seems to have had a large number of cyber crime cases over the last four years in Nepal,

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