At least 13 people are dead and dozens more injured in Kathmandu after a Monday protest at the Nepalese parliament building over the government’s decision to ban Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, and 22 other social media platforms in the country to combat hate speech, fake news, fraud, and everything else that authoritarian regimes use the apps to propagate, the BBC reports.
It’s not clear if Truth Social was among the platforms blocked. Either way it got ugly and deadly when the demonstrators made their way through a cordon around the building. “Tear gas and water cannons were used after the protesters breached into the restricted area,” said police spokesman Shekhar Khanal. What happened next is unclear but Nepal Army Spokesman Rajaram Basnet said soldiers were then deployed to the area and presumably began using live rounds against the crowd.