Nepal yesterday moved to ban the web recreation PlayerUnkown’s Battlegrounds, citing unfavourable affect of the sport on kids and their improvement. Citing violent content material and its impact because the primordial cause for the ban, Sandip Adhikari, deputy director at Nepal Telecommunications Authority (NTA), the nation’s telecoms regulator, informed Reuters that “”We have ordered the ban on PUBG as a result of it’s addictive to kids and youngsters.”
As a part of the ban, all web service suppliers, cell operators and community service suppliers have been instructed to dam streaming of the sport. Gamers would possibly discover methods to avoid this limitation to be able to nonetheless have the ability to play the sport; or they will merely migrate to one of many different Battle Royale video games on supply, equivalent to Fortnite or Apex Legends, as an alternative. It’s attention-grabbing to wonder if the federal government of Nepal will carry on chasing the following on-line recreation fad one after the other or if precise research on the unfavourable affect of those video games are fielded by the Nepalese authorities.
