The protest was not only about the social media ban, people didn’t give away their lives for a “social media company”, no matter what some imbeciles claim, this is also parroted by international news agencies. Nepal has a culture of corruption centered around the three major parties that has achieved a crescendo with a slew of outrageous bills (some of the more egregious being: tracking all movements of tourists, ministers getting to set their own pay, removing age limits for public posts), the straw that broke the camel’s back was the ban on social media with their vague requirements that was clearly a way to impose control. And by the way, they didn’t shoot adults, they shot and killed kids that came from school with their bags still on them, who are still unidentified by the way.

I’d even add that even if this were only protesting the social media ban, it would be totally valid unless you like being cucked by your government. You yourself and the community should be an agent in controlling one’s problems surrounding things like social media not your government that thinks you don’t have enough agency for it.