[kictanet] Under what conditions should we shut down twitter, internet, radio, TV in Kenya?

[McTim]

On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 10:36 AM, Warigia Bowman <warigia at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear listers
>
> We need to take this seriously. We have a big election coming up, and given
> the potential candidates, election violence is a real possibility.
>
> We have an opportunity here to prepare for the deluge.
>
> Under what conditions should we look at shutting down communication?

There are no conditions under which Article 19 of the UDHR should be violated.




What
> level of hate speech justifies it?

none

 Who determines what hate speech is?
> Should twitter be shut down before the election? or should we have a text to
> tweet system, where hate speech can be filtered?


This is censorship, which in my value system is never a good thing!



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McTim
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