Cyber crime is on rise, with police investigating 42 complaints per day
KATHMANDU: ‘Science is a blessing or a curse’, debates are held on this topic in most schools. Some consider science as a gift. Some give numerous arguments to confirm it as a curse. But, in fact, science is a gift. However, it becomes a curse due to misuse.
Science and technology have produced social networks such as TikTok, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, which have recently been developed as online apps. It is a knowledge gift. Facebook has grown in popularity as a means of communication. Similarly, these media have become important means of collecting and disseminating their amusing, historical, and sad moments, sentiments, appeals, and ideas.
Tiktok, a recently developed and used social network, has now become the most popular of these. From children to the elderly, they use TikTok to publicize their emotions and situations. Tiktok, on the other hand, has now established itself as a reliable means of advertising goods and services. When this medium first became popular, it was common practice to use TikTok to make good use of free time. However, its popularity and usage have grown to the point where TikTok must be closed in order to have free time.
The majority of TikTok users have a tendency to brag without even realizing it. People have started doing many perverted things in order to go ‘viral’ in such networks. They are ignoring social values, rules, laws, ethics, conduct, and human values in order to go viral. It is increasing societal distortion, disharmony, obscenity, immorality, cruelty, crime, and loneliness.
Recently, it was discovered that TikTok has spread the most societal distortions among social networks. People appear to be adopting obscenity in order to follow various trends and go viral.
As of the slang and profanity language used in the video, watching TikTok as a family can create an uncomfortable atmosphere. They are experimenting with styles such as nuisance dance, nuditity, obscene language, cruelty, and strangeness. This has a negative impact on everyone who uses TikTok. It also has a negative impact on the child’s brain. Pornographic videos like these raise the crime rate in society.
Many people have lost their lives due to accidents due to tickets. As of this, Tiktok has been banned in America, India, Pakistan and other countries.
However, if such social networks, which are regarded as a scientific gift, are used correctly, they can become a reliable source of knowledge and information. It has the potential to serve as a guide for children and youth. As a result, it appears that the relevant agencies should strictly regulate social networks in order to increase the correct use of social networks. It appears that strict measures should be put in place to punish those who make mistakes.
According to Police Inspector Raj Kumar Khadgi of the Nepal Police Cyber Bureau, people who keep obscene content on Tiktok and send it to others, steal original creations and post copies of them, use other people’s names and pictures on social networks, open profiles/pages and insult people, and add faces of people they don’t like to nude pictures on the Internet are now under investigation. They claim there are deceptions and crimes such as blackmail, threatening via email or mobile SMS, and extortion.
Similarly, he said, the Cyber Bureau receives a lot of complaints about sending SMS and photos through social media saying that valuable goods will be sent, asking them to deposit the money for the goods in the bank, and then not sending the goods after the money is deposited.
Such social networks, according to Khadgi, are difficult to prohibit. And such undesirable trends in these networks cannot be reversed. It is, however, manageable.
“These days, many people are suffering from social media,” he explained, “that is why the number of people filing complaints at the Cyber Bureau is increasing day by day.”
In 2078, 2,942 cybercrime complaints were filed, according to Khadgi. By 2079, 8,000 applications had been filed. According to him, the bureau investigates 42 complaints per day on average and provides legal remedies. Aside from that, 50 complaints are monitored on a daily basis, with legal advice and suggestions provided.
To combat social media crime, the Cyber Bureau has conducted public awareness campaigns in all seven states. If a policy is established, public awareness campaigns will be carried out in government and non-governmental offices, schools, colleges, communities, and organizations dedicated to the protection of women’s and children’s rights.
However, he stated that no one guilty can avoid punishment, and that he will be punished under the Electronic Proceedings Act 2063 Chapter No. 9. The paragraph mentions a fine of up to Rs. 50,000 or imprisonment for up to 6 months, or both, depending on the nature of the crime.
If we use social media correctly, it can be a blessing, but if we misuse it, it can become a curse. Nowadays, social media can be used to obtain air tickets, electricity bills, water bills, movie tickets, hospital bills, or banking services. So let’s do it and use social media properly.
-Tenzing Dolma Tamang
