J&K Government Wants You to Netflix and Chill on 2G

The Indian authorities is finally starting to put an cease to the net shutdown beyond Jammu and Kashmir. J&Thousand authorities officials issued orders to restore 2G internet access express to 301 websites in the region over the weekend.

Limited internet connectivity services tin be availed on mail-paid and pre-paid mobile SIM cards. The limitations are applicable for broadband connections of institutions that got reinstated a couple of weeks back as well.

These 301 whitelisted websites include search engines, didactics websites, employment websites, entertainment services, electronic mail services, news sites, and utilities. The order suggests that the restriction will be effective until Jan 31.

In the allowed amusement websites, there are pop video streaming platforms like Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, and Hotstar which are highly unlikely to function on 2G data speeds.

The immune search engines include Google, Yahoo, Ask, and MSN while privacy-focused search engines similar DuckDuckGo are excluded. In addition, VPN apps are blocked also.

As The Wire points out, reputed Indian newspaper websites are allowed along with a few foreign news outlets including The New York Times, BBC, Wall Street Periodical, and Washington Post.

Unfortunately, in that location are no social media websites or any apps that volition allow communication on the listing."Access shall be limited to whitelisted sites and not to any social media applications allowing peer to peer advice and Virtual Private Network Application," states the order.

With all that said, it is worth acknowledging that this is is a good offset step towards revoking the complete internet shutdown, which reportedly resulted in huge business losses apart from the inconveniences caused to the citizens. We hope the government does the needful to offer complete internet services sooner rather than afterward.