The Jammu and Kashmir government’s recent harsh move of imposing a blanket ban on 22 social media sites including Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp in the restive Kashmir Valley for a period of one month or till further orders has virtually failed.
A vast majority of the users are now accessing these platforms through Virtual Private Networks (VPNs).
Initially, it was the Internet-savvy generation of the Valley which quickly turned to free VPN to bypass the ban.