[kictanet] Media Misleading Citizens?

[McTim]

On 3/21/12, Barrack Otieno <otieno.barrack at gmail.com> wrote:
> Listers,
>
> I just saw this on the wall of a popular media house and i am appalled
> by the misinformation, why can't our dear journalists do more research
> before publishing info, i see why Prof Nyong'o was so agitated during
> the Interview on Citizen TV, this is really dangerous? below is the
> text..
>
> The Communications Commission of Kenya could have access to your
> personal internet content by July this year, if a plan they have set
> in motion succeeds. The CCK has signed a 32.6 million shilling deal
> with the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) to install a
> system that will monitor all incoming and outgoing internet content in
> Kenya,


I too feel this is misinformation, as this is NOT what the ITU does.
AFAIK, They just don't have the capacity to do this.

Private sector vendors do this sort of thing.

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Cheers,

McTim
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