i visited Nepal several times over the last decade. the country was a mess. of course it’s a developing nation, but i’m talking about the culture. Chinese influence is growing, and with it the atheistic materialist Communist view. Nepal’s deep Buddhist and Vedic culture is being devastated, state intelligence and surveillance is pervasive, even in the villages. not a fun place to visit anymore. the corruption culture runs deep, and the people are fed up; something like this crisis was inevitable.

Reminded of Euromaidan; murdering demonstrators is often the final trigger for overwhelming numbers of the public to turn against the government.

Compare Serbia, where peaceful protests have been ongoing for some months - also against corruption.

Original report (MSN is just repackaging):

> https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/nepal-pm-oli-quit...

Given the toxic effect of social media in the region (Myanmar comes to mind), trying to force social media companies to have legal presence in the country seemed sensible.

When the choice is a stream of inane fake news and viral sensationalist ragebait, or only government approved news.. I'm not entirely sure which is better?

I'm guessing probably the latter. At least you know it's bullshit and your neighbors aren't trying to murder some minorities or shooting up ivermectin or whatever

Hope Nepal comes out of this alright and more people don't get hurt. A collapse of the government (even a bad one) usually leads to nothing good.