 As a result of this censorship, people living in the valley have resorted to circumvention tactics in the form of using web proxies, VPNs among other things.The popularity of these tactics have compelled the government to block access to Android Play store among other services for some time in a bid to prevent citizens from getting access to these services.The banned services include widely used services like Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp but also surprisingly the list includes websites like QQ, Baidu, Qzone, which are not used outside of mainland China.