Posted on 06/01/2004 4:48:06 PM PDT by yankeedame
Zimbabwe to seize control of email
Correspondents in Harare
June 2, 2004
ZIMBABWE’S government has proposed new contracts for all internet service providers that will force them to block content or report "malicious messages" to the authorities.
The proposed contract obliges internet service providers (ISPs) to "take all necessary measures to prevent" any content inconsistent with Zimbabwe laws to be carried on its network.
"The provider shall ensure that objectionable, obscene, unauthorised or any other content, message or communications infringing copyright, intellectual property right and international and domestic cyber laws... inconsistent with the laws of Zimbabwe are not carried in his network."
The contract also obliges ISPs to "provide, without delay, all the tracing facilities of the nuisance or malicious messages or communications transported through his equipment and network, to authorised officers of... the government of Zimbabwe, when such information is required for investigations of crimes or in the interests of national security."
Police in Zimbabwe last year arrested 14 people accused of circulating a subversive electronic mail message calling for "violent demonstrations and strikes to push Robert Mugabe out of office".
In December Mr Mugabe lashed out at the "hegemony" of the north, attacking rich nations at a UN-sponsored information summit for imposing their views on access to information and freedom of the press on Zimbabwe.
He vowed his country would control the means to get information to its citizens, and stressed Zimbabwe's sovereignty.
But in March, the Supreme Court outlawed as unconstitutional legal provisions that gave the president powers to eavesdrop or intercept emails or telephone conversation.
"Violent propaganda and misinformation are peddled to delegitimise our just struggles against vestigial colonialism, indeed to weaken national cohesion," Mr Mugabe said in December.
"(They are) efforts at thwarting a broad Third World front against what is a dangerous imperial world order laid by warrior states and people," he said.
"My country continues to be the victim of such aggression with both the United Kingdom and the US using the (information technology) superiority to challenge our sovereignty through hostile and malicious broadcasts calculated to foment instability and destroy the state through divisions."
Officials at the country's telecommunications company, Tel-One, were not immediately available for comment on the new contract.
An official at one ISP raised questions as to whether the contract was legal and also said that it would be "practically impossible to monitor and check on all emails communicated through our network".
Agence France-Presse
Now, if only Nigeria would take control of its email problem.........
ping
Sounds like another country needs some American liberating.
FYI.
LOL, bingo.
Please, not before they send me my share of the money.
The following chocolate cookie recipe is so good I have to encrypt it so others don't steal it:
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No thanks. Money down a rat hole. The best thing that can be done for Africa is to seal it off and forget it.
Go Kathy, pick up and leave NOW!
Do not wait, do not dither, take your son and cross the
border NOW!!!
The money is coming, I just know it.
Why is the US and western Europe not offering assylum & refugee status to any whites trapped in Zimbabwe?
We are about to see true genocide.
" I will not end by saying 'until next week' but just, thank you for reading. Love cathy.
I thought at the time that the line was ominous.
Oh dear
Praying for Cathy.
You wouldn't pay for just one JDAM that accidentally releases over Mugabe's palace?
Why anyone would dignify this malicious cannibal with a formal title is beyond my ability to discern.
Mugabe has not threatened anyone in that fashion technically. As for asylum, US has accepted visa applications from Rhodesians for many years but many white Zimbabweans prefer to live in South Africa and increasingly Canada, New Zealand, Australia and England (in order of preference) according to some of my friends.
Nigeria has already seized control of my junk mail folder.
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