J&K government banned 22 social networking sites and applications. It cited misuse of these sites and applications by anti- national and anti-social elements.
The ban will be in place for a month or till further orders. SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir government on Wednesday banned 22 social networking sites and applications including Facebook , WhatsApp and Twitter in Kashmir on the ground that these were being misused by anti-national and anti-social elements to fan trouble.
The ban will be in place for a month or till further orders, whichever is earlier, said an order issued by Principal Secretary (Home) R K Goyal.
"In the interest of maintenance of public order, the government hereby directs all internet service providers that any message or class of messages to or from a person or a class of persons relating to any subject or any pictorial content through the following social networking sites shall not be transmitted in Kashmir valley with immediate effect for a period of one month or till further orders, whichever is earlier," he said in the three-page order.
Help this 4-year-old survive a rare cancer! The sites and applications which will be inaccessible in the valley include Facebook, Twitter, Whatsapp, Wechat, QQ, Qzone, Google Plus, Skype , Line, Pinterest, Snapchat, Youtube, Vine and Flickr.
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