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Following the recent introduction of a social media tax, roughly 35% of Ugandans use the internet.
This article was amended on 28 February 2019 to clarify that Uganda's social media tax has impacted internet services, rather than overall usage.
Wine also joined local activists in July to protest against a social media tax introduced ostensibly to boost state revenue and to end what Mr Museveni called "gossip" on WhatsApp, Facebook and Twitter.
Though it is not taking the idea of some form of future social media tax off the table entirely, as it continues seeking ways to make big tech pay a fairer share of earnings into the public purse, also noting in its response: "We will be considering any levy in the context of existing work being led by HM Treasury in relation to corporate tax and the digital economy".
It also pointed out that the amount of data consumed when using a VPN made it a more expensive option than paying the social media tax.
A social media tax was imposed Sunday by the government in Kampala — part of a plan to wrest back control over online public discourse by implementing restrictions on how people access social media platforms.
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