Ever since the porn ban has been enforced in India, the number of VPN (Virtual Private Network) downloads grew a staggering 405% in the 12 months, according to Top10VPN. This clearly indicates that the porn ban has not worked in India.
The data was analysed from Apple’s App Store as well as the Google Play Store.
The Indian government had banned 827 porn websites. This led to an outcry, mostly from users and porn websites who went on to circumvent the ban by changing their URLs. Most of the sites changed the name from .com to .org or .net, and so on and so forth. But the Indian government got wise to this and banned these alternate URLS as well.
Many other countries and organisations have tried banning porn and but they have not been completely successful in it. And, Indians are no different. According to Top10VPN, it was seen that VPN downloads was at moving at a steady increase of 66% on average. Apparently, Google searches for the term VPN also spiked immediately after the ban was announced.
However, not all Indians have jumped onto the VPN bandwagon and have just started using sites that aren’t affected by the ban.
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