Council sends circular to Nepal Police against 43 Youtube channels
October 7, Kathmandu: Press Council Nepal has sent a circular to the Cyber Bureau of Nepal Police to investigate the 43 YouTube channels for disseminating fact-less, misleading and indecent content and take action against them.
As per the decision of the Code of Conduct Monitoring Sub-Committee under the coordination of Council Chairperson Bal Krishna Basnet, the decision was taken to take action against different YouTube and social sites. The Council used to write to Nepal Police for further action if such a YouTube channel was not registered as the media do not follow the warning issued by it.
A press release issued on Monday by the Information Officer of the Council, Ram Sharan Bohara, mentioned that the Council has been carrying out regular monitoring and taking action-making procedures regarding managing, enlisting and archiving YouTube channels from April 2, 2024. The Council shared about the action against different YouTube and online media. It has blacklisted three media—MBP Crime News.com.
TV Annapurna.Com and Setokhari.Com. Seventy-six complaints were registered and the Council took action after carrying out self-monitoring of 269 contents.
The Council has started regulating the content disseminated from YouTube channels making procedures following the increasing number of complaints regarding such content. RSS
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