INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
AU$0.70) to anyone using social apps such as Facebook, WhatsApp and Twitter
That's a hefty sum for a country with a GDP per capita of about 2,511,500 shillings.The country's president, Yoweri Museveni, pushed for
the tax on the grounds that social media encourages "gossip"
However, it's not clear how social media use will be monitored and how the money will be collected.Access to social media in Uganda was
shut down completely during elections in 2016, in what Museveni called "a security measure to avert lies".Taxes and bansThe news comes
shortly after Papua New Guinea's government announced an experiment to block Facebook for a month to identify fake users and gauge how the
accounts, users that upload pornographic images, users that post false and misleading information," communications minister Sam Basil told
the country's most popular newspaper, the Post-Courier.Basil has also suggested that Papua New Guinea could set up its own alternative
social network.Via Engadget
