Fri, May 7th 2021 12:17pm
Glyn Moody
Three years ago we wrote about African countries that thought taxing blogs and social media was an easy way to raise money and to muzzle inconvenient voices. A year later, Techdirt was reporting on a sudden boom in VPN use among Ugandans keen to avoid that country s levy on social media use. As Karl Bode reported, back then the authorities were pressuring ISPs to ban the use of VPNs. A post on the Rest of the World site has a useful update on how things have worked out since then. First, the money: