Amnesty International called on Uganda to scrap the tax, saying it robbed “many people of their right to freedom of expression, with a chilling effect on other human rights”.
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Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni unashamedly defended the country’s new social media tax, saying Ugandans were using such platforms for “lying”, and squandering the nation’s hard currency on fees to foreign-owned telecoms firms.
The parliament of Uganda passed a tax on social media use, with a bill the President Yoweri Museveni defended by saying such platforms promote “gossiping.”
As of July 1, users of internet messaging services including Facebook, WhatsApp, Twitter and Viber must pay 200 shilling, or about $0.05 per day
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