[kictanet] Shooting the messenger?

[Brandie Martin]

Good evening Listers:
   I would like to pose two questions to the group. I was recently in Kenya
and had the opportunity to interview many of you on the issue of
intermediary liability in regard to the use of ICT platforms to promote
social unrest and whether ISPs and telcos could shutdown ICT platforms.
Thank you, again, to all of those with whom I spoke. I have learned a great
deal from all of you.
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*Do you believe there will be any policies drafted to structure what ISPs
and Telcos should do if their platforms are used for dissent that could
promote violence? *

I believe this issue was discussed by Victor Kapiyo at the July EAIGF held
in Nairobi.
*
*
*Has any of the discussion from the EAIGF been used to inform current
sentiment toward intermediary liability?*

Thank you very much,
Brandie L. Martin

-- 
Brandie Martin, M.S.

Ph.D. Candidate and Graduate Fellow
College of Communications
The Pennsylvania State University
blm5350 at psu.edu
website: http://brandiemartin.wordpress.com/
twitter: https://twitter.com/Brandie_Martin

On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 12:24 AM, Grace Githaiga <ggithaiga at hotmail.com>wrote:

>  Good morning Listers
>
> I hope your week is starting well.
>
> Last week, we held a f2f breakfast meeting to discuss intermediary
> liability in Kenya. As promised by Alice, we would like to continue with
> this discussion for this week.
>
>
> As Kenya prepares for elections next year, and with all the political
> alignments taking place, we are likely to see intermediaries being blamed
> for carrying utterances of our politicians. The media has been blamed many
> times by politicians for ‘misquoting’ them yet in many instances there is
> video footage to confirm that the politicians did indeed say certain
> things. ****
>
>
> For those who watched the youtube video that ridiculed Prophet Muhammad
> and resulted in the killing of Christopher Stephens, the US ambassador to
> Libya and three American members of his staff by angry protesters (or
> lynch mob as some people called them), who would you say was wrong or
> where would you place the responsibility for this eventuality? Would you
> say it is the video producers or or youtube or who?****
>
>
> Lets hear it from you listers.
>
>
> A wonderful week to all of you.
>
> Rgds
>
> GG
>
>
>
> > Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2012 17:19:04 +0300
> > From: alice at apc.org
> > Subject: Re: [kictanet] Discussion intermediary liability in Kenya
> > CC: kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke
> > To: ggithaiga at hotmail.com
> >
> > Dear Chip and all
> >
> >
> > Thank you for sharing these valuable resources to enrich intermediary
> > liability discussions.
> >
> > However, we have a more pressing issue to discuss, our "mobile switch
> > off" (and here's a great article on that
> >
> http://www.ihub.co.ke/blog/2012/10/phones-switch-off-how-it-was-done-why-and-what-next/
> )
> >
> > We will focus on that for a while and come back to the internet
> > liability discussion after the breakfast meeting on 10th October. But
> > this should not stop any lister from posting an opinion on the issue.
> >
> >
> > Best
> > Alice
>
>
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