Minister for Communications and Information Technology Prithvi Subba Gurung has warned that Meta will be banned in Nepal if it is not registered within 7 days.
At a department-level interaction program on the Right to Information organized by the National Information Commission in Kathmandu on Friday, he said that despite issuing notices repeatedly requesting Meta to register in Nepal, it has not complied.
He warned that Meta would be banned in Nepal if it was not registered within the next 7 days, saying that the third notification expired a few days ago. Minister Gurung said that money was being sent from Nepal to Meta’s office every now and then, and that Meta should register in Nepal and pay taxes.
“It happened three times. They issued a notice as soon as I arrived, then they issued another notice. They issued a notice for the third time, and the deadline has just expired,” Communications Minister Gurung said, “I won’t give more than 7 days. In the meantime, we have been searching for them. They are bigger than the country. What is their arrogance? What is Nepal’s GDP? That’s it. Nepal keeps saying that it is much smaller than our organization. The independence of a country is not tied to money.”
He said that Meta had boasted that its income was more than Nepal’s gross domestic product (GDP), and argued that the country’s independence could not be measured in money.