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J&K: Govt’s social media ban fails as people take to VPNs to use internet
Ref: http://www.deccanchronicle.com/nation/current-affairs/300417/jk-govts-social-media-ban-fails-as-people-take-to-vpns-to-use-internet.html
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.