KATHMANDU: Minister for Communications and Information Technology Gokul Baskota today dismissed claims that the new information technology bill was aimed at curtailing people’s rights to expression.
Minister Baskota said the bill was brought to manage digital medium adding that the bill does not question the rights to expression. He added that the bill was brought to develop digital signature.
According to him, the bill aims at discouraging cyber bullies and crimes as well as curbing the flow of indecent contents on the internet.
Speaking at a program in the capital today, Minister Baskota said operation of social media without registration, and those media posing threat to national independence and social security would be banned.
Minister Baskota also stated that social networks like Google, Facebook and Twitter have evaded tax in Nepal. “Therefore, they have to be made systematic,” he added.
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