Reacting to the Jammu and Kashmir government’s gag order on the use of social media for its employees, IAS officer Shah Faesal said Wednesday he would now use code language to update his Facebook account. From now on I will use coded language to update,” Faesal, first Kashmiri to top the civil services examination in 2009, wrote on his Facebook page hours after the government issued the gag order. While the gag order was widely condemned on the social media, many users “warned” Faesal that the order might land him in trouble. Seven hours later, the IAS officer wrote another post in which he called on government employees to observe a certain code of conduct while using social media. “Jokes apart, government employees must observe a certain code of conduct while using social media.

Source: Hindustan Times December 27, 2017 17:26 UTC