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Amrita Khalid

Amrita Khalid

Former Reporter

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    “Indecent materials” has led Nepal to giving TikTok the boot.

    “The government has decided to ban TikTok as it was necessary to regulate the use of the social media platform that was disrupting social harmony, goodwill and flow of indecent materials,” said Foreign Minister Narayan Prakash Saud at a cabinet meeting on Monday.

    Nepal is the second country to go for a nation-wide ban of the popular social platform — India has also banned TikTok. Countries including the US, UK, and Canada have banned TikTok on government-issued devices.

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    Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos calls actor’s union request for viewership bonuses “a bridge too far.”

    Talks between SAG-AFTRA and the studios to end the union’s ongoing strike were derailed on Wednesday evening. One area of contention was the actor’s union request for viewership bonuses.

    Sarandos defended the studios, calling the bonuses “a bridge too far to add deep into the negotiations right now,” in a conversation with Bloomberg journalist Lucas Shaw on Thursday morning at the Screentime conference in Los Angeles.

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