Police reportedly opened fire on demonstrators in Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal, after protests against a government ban on most social media platforms swelled to enormous size on Monday. The official casualty count included 19 dead and 150 injured as of Monday afternoon.

The Nepalese government announced late last week that it would ban most of the big social media platforms – including X, Facebook, and YouTube – because they missed a deadline to “register” with the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology.

The police tried to impose a curfew at 12:30 p.m. local time as the demonstrations grew and expanded to other cities. When…

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