Ugandans love their freedom of communication and in the last few days
and weeks; people have been pondering their next move onto what to actually do
so that they can easily access their favourite social media networks that they
can use to communicate with their friends and family.
With the introduction of
the new social media tax which is commonly known as the OTT tax, very many
Ugandans are beginning to find out other ways that they can use to access their
favourite social media networks while others have given up on using social
media all together.
Today, I would like to give you some great tips that you
can use to help you access social media and still enjoy the benefits of social
media that you have been enjoying.
Using Virtual
Private Networks (VPNs)
Some smart Ugandans are now planning to use the Virtual private Networks
so that they can be able to access their favourite social media networks.
VPN
is a software technology that allows a user to send and receive data online
while remaining anonymous in the network. VPNs are able to hide a user’s IP
address hence making it impossible to identify where the user is accessing the
internet from.
Ugandans first used the
VPNs when the government cracked down on social media during the 2016
elections.
The only bad thing that might happen is that some of the authorities
in the Uganda Communications Commission might decide to block all the Known
VPNs that some Ugandans might be using to access social media and this means
that they will not actually be able to access their favourite social media
sites.
Accessing
social media through using the Public WiFi
Since the social media tax is only attached to the sim cards of the
users of a specific telecommunication companies, it is very possible that if a
person uses a Public WiFi, he or she will probably be able to access the likes
of Facebook, Twitter, and others without paying the dreaded social media tax.
So if a person wants to seriously dodge the social media tax, he or she will
need to use services like Rokespots, and WiMax routers as a very good way of
dodging the social media tax.
If you truly are fun of social media and cannot
live without it, then you should try to use some of the public wiFi that are
available in Uganda.
You could
point your devices to a different country
Some of the geniuses that we do have in Uganda have suggested that it is
possible to access social media if you point your devices to another country
that does not actually have social media tax.
According some technology
enthusiasts in uganda, if you successfully restore the factory settings of your
phone and change the country, you will successfully be able to access social
media without having to pay any cent for the OTT tax.
I have not tried it out
but you should try it out and if it works, please tell your friends don’t leave
them in dilemma.
Getting out
of Uganda
Some Ugandans out there are now planning to change their citizenship
just because of the social media tax claiming that they are being oppressed and
that their freedoms are being crushed by the dictatorial tendencies of the NRM
government.
So if you feel nothing is working out for you in Uganda, probably this should be
your last resort. But I do hope you will
not do that to your mother land.
Stop Using
Social media
If everything else is not working and you are willing to live even
without socialmedia in the pearl of Africa, you should just quit social media
sites like Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp and continue with your normal life like
you are still living in a cave.
That’s how bad it could reach. This means that
you will accept losing all the benefits of social media and all the friends
that you do have online just like that.
Quitting social media will save you from all the stress of the many
likes and messages that you do have to answer and read.
Finally, a good citizen has to pay his or her taxes
and remember the Good Book says Give to
Ceasar what belongs to Ceasar and to God what belongs to God.
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