<p>Kathmandu: Nepal lifted a ban on Chinese-owned TikTok on Thursday, more than nine months after outlawing the popular video sharing app for disturbing "social harmony and goodwill."</p><p>The decision was taken at a cabinet meeting after the company agreed to cooperate with Nepal's law enforcers to address TikTok-related crime and regulate its content, a government source said on condition of anonymity.</p><p>TikTok, whose holding company is Beijing-based ByteDance, said it was pleased with the decision.</p>.TikTok shows less ‘anti-China’ content than rivals, study finds.<p>Nepal's previous government banned the app in November, citing concerns around its misuse. More than 1,600 TikTok-related cyber crime cases were registered over four years in the Himalayan nation before that.</p><p>Sporadic street protests erupted, with users saying the ban cut off a source of income and shut down a forum for free speech. TikTok had 2.2 million users in Nepal at the time, according to the Internet Service Providers' Association of Nepal.</p><p>Nepal sought from TikTok a focal unit to assist the Cyber Bureau of Nepal Police round the clock to help nab criminals and block inappropriate content that has even led to suicides.</p><p>"Prompt, real-time identification of users can be an effective tool to nab offenders and discourage misuse of the technology," Dipak Raj Awasti, the bureau's spokesman, told Reuters on Thursday.</p><p>Several other countries have either partially or completely banned TikTok, with many citing national security and privacy concerns.</p>
<p>Kathmandu: Nepal lifted a ban on Chinese-owned TikTok on Thursday, more than nine months after outlawing the popular video sharing app for disturbing "social harmony and goodwill."</p><p>The decision was taken at a cabinet meeting after the company agreed to cooperate with Nepal's law enforcers to address TikTok-related crime and regulate its content, a government source said on condition of anonymity.</p><p>TikTok, whose holding company is Beijing-based ByteDance, said it was pleased with the decision.</p>.TikTok shows less ‘anti-China’ content than rivals, study finds.<p>Nepal's previous government banned the app in November, citing concerns around its misuse. More than 1,600 TikTok-related cyber crime cases were registered over four years in the Himalayan nation before that.</p><p>Sporadic street protests erupted, with users saying the ban cut off a source of income and shut down a forum for free speech. TikTok had 2.2 million users in Nepal at the time, according to the Internet Service Providers' Association of Nepal.</p><p>Nepal sought from TikTok a focal unit to assist the Cyber Bureau of Nepal Police round the clock to help nab criminals and block inappropriate content that has even led to suicides.</p><p>"Prompt, real-time identification of users can be an effective tool to nab offenders and discourage misuse of the technology," Dipak Raj Awasti, the bureau's spokesman, told Reuters on Thursday.</p><p>Several other countries have either partially or completely banned TikTok, with many citing national security and privacy concerns.</p>