[kictanet] Shooting the messenger?

[Barrack Otieno]

Lordmwesh,

I don'tthink  its a question of putting weight on Intermediaries but making
them aware of their roles and responsibilities with respect to informing
educating and entertaining, freedom without responsibility is a recipe for
chaos, better to arrest the situation before it gets out of hand, you
realise how information has made the public more difficult to deal with by
law enforcement agencies, the same freedom can be an Achilles heel to
intermediaries one of the Intermediary representatives alluded to the fact
that if we are not careful litigants with the money and know how can bring
down the biggest of corporations through Law suits.


Best Regards

On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 3:35 AM, Brandie Martin <blm5350 at psu.edu> wrote:

> Thank you to Ali Hussein, Mwendwa Kivuva, Barrack Otieno, Toepista
> Nabusoba, John Kariuki, and Grace Githaiga for contributing to this
> discussion on intermediary liability.
>
> With gratitude,
> Brandie L. Martin
>
> On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 8:47 AM, Grace Githaiga <ggithaiga at hotmail.com>wrote:
>
>>  Thanks Ali and Kivuva for continuing discussion on this thread.
>>
>> You both caution on the need to be careful in how intermediary liability
>> is handled in terms legislation lest we restrict innovation. And yes
>> Kivuva. Users are not exactly innocent since they are capable of making the
>> right decisions on what to post.
>>
>> Please feel free to continue debate on this same thread.
>> Rgds
>> GG
>>
>> > Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2012 10:09:24 +0300
>> > From: Kivuva at transworldafrica.com
>>
>> > Subject: Re: [kictanet] Shooting the messenger?
>> > CC: kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke
>> > To: ggithaiga at hotmail.com
>>
>> >
>> > Putting weight on the shoulders of intermediaries is not the way to
>> > go. We are admitting that the public is so innocent that it cannot
>> > make right decisions based on what they see, read, or hear. This type
>> > of censorship will make us be like China.
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