[kictanet] CCK PUSHES LOCAL FIRMS TO HOST WEBSITES LOCALLY

[Agosta Liko]

Walu

You have just explained the biggest risk when it comes to local hosting and
in most cases getting a .co.ke




On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 12:14 PM, Kivuva <Kivuva at transworldafrica.com>wrote:

> This is what Walu is talking about, it's easier to enforce LAWFULLY local
> hosted content than that in the west. See this report from CIPESA.
>
> My understanding is Western country companies have a very low opinion on
> our judicial system. They NEVER obey court orders from these region.
>
>
> http://www.cipesa.org/?wpfb_dl=65
>
> http://www.cipesa.org/2013/09/online-freedoms-under-siege-as-african-countries-seek-social-media-users-information/
> Online Freedoms Under Siege as African Countries Seek Social Media Users’
> Information
>
> Date posted: September 9, 2013
>
> Only a small fraction of requests made by law enforcement officials to
> Facebook, Google and Twitter for users’ identities or to block content
> originate from Africa, but there is cause to worry.
>
> Facebook, whose popularity across Africa is growing exponentially, lists
> Botswana, Egypt, Ivory Coast, South Africa, and Uganda among the countries
> that requested users’ details in the first half of 2013. Meanwhile, last
> year saw seven African countries ask Google to remove content compared to
> only one request from the continent – by Libya – in 2010 and 2011. The
> beauty is that most of those requests were rejected.
>
> No African country made a request for user account information either to
> Google or Twitter in the first half of 2013.
>
> *Facebook*
>
> In the first half of 2013, Botswana made three requests to Facebook
> related to seven users.  Egypt had eight requests regarding 11 accounts,
> the Ivory Coast lodged four requests, Uganda one request and South Africa
> 14 requests on nine users. All requests from Africa were denied.
>
> *Table 1: Facebook Data Requests (**By Author from Facebook Global
> Government Requests Report)
> <https://www.facebook.com/about/government_requests>*
>   *Country* *Total Requests* *Users/Accounts requested* *Compliance rate*
> Botswana 3 7 0%  Egypt 8 11  Ivory Coast 4 4  Uganda 1 1  South Africa 14
> 9  *Global Highest*  India 3,245 4,144 50%  United States of America 11,000
> – 12,000 20,000 – 21,000 79%
>
> *Google*
>
> Eight African countries have made at least one content removal request to
> Google since 2010. Djibouti’s 2012 request to block YouTube videos
> containing the movie *Innocence of Muslims* on the grounds of “religious
> offense” was rejected. But a similar request by Egypt was temporarily
> complied with, because of the “difficult circumstances” in this country at
> the time.
>
> Meanwhile, a Kenyan request to remove content from blogger, arising out of
> a court order in a defamation case, was rejected. The Island nation of
> Mauritius made two content removal requests in the first half of 2012. Both
> were for reasons of defamation; both were rejected. Madagascar’s two
> requests were court-mandated on defamation grounds but Google accepted only
> one. Sierra Leone made one request regarding 60 items on Youtube which it
> wanted blocked as they portrayed or promoted violence. Google declined the
> request, which was made by executive not court order.
>
> In the first half of 2012, South Africa had three court-ordered removal
> requests related to 11 items and Google fully complied. In the second half
> of 2012, Pretoria made three court ordered requests related to eight items
> and 33% was complied with. All South African requests were related to
> defamation.
>
> Previous Google reports show that in the period July – December 2010,
> Libya made 68 requests for a total of 203 items to be removed from Youtube.
> Of these requests, 31% were complied with, either by some or all of the
> content being removed. In the subsequent six months, Libya’s two requests
> regarding five items were denied. All of Libya’s requests were not backed
> by a court order
>
> *Twitter*
>
> South Sudan, the continent’s youngest nation, is the only African country
> that made a user information request to Twitter between July and December
> 2012. Juba’s request was denied.
>
> *A Catalogue of Infringements*
> While only a handful of African countries are making these requests, there
> is nonetheless evidence of a worrying trend, in which African countries are
> taking both legal and non-legal measures to curtail the freedoms of
> individuals to express themselves on the internet.
>
> The last year has seen a spiral of activity against online freedom of
> expression in numerous African countries. In fact, 2013 might go down as a
> record year in terms of curtails on internet rights on the continent.
>
> Gambia has passed a law<http://globalvoicesonline.org/2013/07/12/new-internet-law-in-the-gambia-puts-gag-on-government-criticism/>under which those who publish “false news” online about the government can
> be handed a 15 year jail term and fined up to US$90,000. Meanwhile, Zambia
> president Michael Sata’s government in July blocked access to the *Zambian
> Watchdog *website<http://cpj.org/2013/07/in-zambia-harassment-of-watchdog-site-continues.php>,
> accusing it of promoting hate speech. Two journalists arrested on suspicion
> of working with the online publishers were due to appear in court. Another
> website, *Zambia Reports, was blocked too. *Some observers said blocking
> the websites was part of the government’s campaign to silence independent
> critics.
>
> Next door in Zimbabwe, security agencies spent several weeks in the run-up
> to the July 2013 general elections looking for ‘Baba Jukwa’<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/10178570/Mugabe-hunts-for-internet-mole-Baba-Jukwa-revealing-his-secrets.html>,
> whose Facebook page published popular exposes of the excesses of President
> Robert Mugabe’s government. Three weeks before election day, there were
> reports Mr. Mugabe’s machinery had staked a US$300,000 bounty to unearth
> the identity of the whistleblower as it moved to block access to the site.
>
> There have also been cases of bloggers charged in court in Kenya and
> others sought by authorities<http://www.nation.co.ke/News/14-bloggers-linked-to-hate-messages/-/1056/1732288/-/cut5kvz/-/index.html>over their Facebook, blogger and Twitter posts, amidst concerns that
> authorities were infringing citizens’ right to free expression. The country
> also asked internet intermediaries to monitor their traffic<http://iwpr.net/report-news/tackling-online-hate-speech-kenya>for messages deemed “inflammatory” or “divisive” in a move some observers
> believed could be an invasion of privacy. Kenya has also ordered the
> blocking of access to some websites, such as Mashada<http://jameni.com/was-the-government-justified-in-shutting-down-mashada-com/>
> .
>
> Burundi – always a high-flying culprit in clamping on free expression – in
> May ordered the online newspaper www.iwacu-burundi.org to block readers’
> comments for 30 days, after accusing<http://www.trust.org/item/20130531164503-qium7/?source%20=%20hppartner>it of publishing comments that violated media law on “national unity,
> public order and security, inciting ethnic hatred, defending criminal
> activity and insulting the head of state.”
>
> Perhaps more than any other country in Africa, Ethiopia regularly blocks
> websites, undertakes surveillance of websites and social media, and charges
> journalists over content published offline and online. In May 2013, the
> Supreme Court upheld the conviction and 18-year prison sentence for
> journalist and blogger Eskinder Nega<http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/voices-in-danger-jailed-for-18-years-for-criticising-ethiopias-government-journalist-eskinder-nega-vows-to-keep-fighting-8644555.html>,
> convicted last year of “terrorism acts” related to his writing. The
> state-run telecom monopoly Ethiopia Telecom has for many years been used to filter
> content<https://opennet.net/blog/2012/11/update-information-controls-ethiopia>and hundreds of websites remain blocked. These include blogs and websites
> of a number of recently convicted individuals, news organisations,
> political parties, bloggers, and international organisations.
>
> In Uganda, where authorities have in the past ordered internet service
> providers to block access to certain websites and services, the government
> announced<http://www.cipesa.org/2013/06/ugandas-assurances-on-social-media-monitoring-ring-hollow/>it would form a social media monitoring center “to weed out those who use
> this media to damage the government and people’s reputations” and also
> targeted at those “bent to cause a security threat to the nation.” Many
> other countries on the continent have variously interfered with citizen’s
> internet rights – many times unjustifiably.
>
> The number of requests made by African countries is therefore not
> reflective of the state of online freedom on the continent. This is because
> most governments have unilateral means of dealing with situations they do
> not like, without going through multilateral intermediaries. As we are
> witnessing, they can enact national legislations, issue uncontested orders
> to local intermediaries, or use extra-legal measures.
>
> With more people on the continent getting online (mobile penetration in
> Africa stands at 63%, internet usage at 16% of the population), governments
> are likely to infringe more on citizens’ online freedoms. A challenge then
> is to promote awareness about protecting and promoting online freedoms.
> There is also a need to continuously promote responsible user behaviour
> online, as not all state efforts to monitor citizens’ actions online are
> unjustifiable.
>
> Download the full OpenNet Africa Brief here<http://www.cipesa.org/?wpfb_dl=65>
> .
>
> To learn more about CIPESA’s OpenNet Africa project and its monitoring of
> online freedoms, or to share an idea or report a violation, write to:
> programmes at cipesa.org.
>
>
> ______________________
> Mwendwa Kivuva, Nairobi, Kenya.
> twitter.com/lordmwesh
> google ID | Skype ID: lordmwesh
>
>
> On 28 November 2013 02:59, Ali Hussein <ali at hussein.me.ke> wrote:
>
>> @Walu
>>
>>
>> This realization in itself will increase self-regulation at User,Content
>> Provider and Operator levels.
>>
>>
>> You mean censorship?
>>
>> There is only one route to that as the media in this country discovered..
>>
>> Ali Hussein
>>
>> +254 0770 906375 / 0713 601113
>>
>> "I fear the day technology will surpass human interaction. The world will
>> have a generation of idiots".  ~ Albert Einstein
>>
>> Sent from my iPad
>>
>> On Nov 28, 2013, at 10:25 AM, Walubengo J <jwalu at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> @Liko, @Eng Karuiki,
>>
>> Recall that this local hosting/ cyber security is not my ideal position.
>> Just a consensus understanding  I picked from my long online argument on
>> the same with Sammy B.
>>
>> But maybe we can use the defamation example. If I defamed someone on a
>> blog hosted locally, it is easier  to enforce a pull-down order from a
>> local court as oppsed to if the content sits abroad and physically under a
>> different jurisdiction.
>>
>> Enforcement is therfore easier because one can walk up to the server room
>> and make arrests if the techies decline to implement an order.
>>
>> This realization in itself will increase self-regulation at User,Content
>> Provider and Operator levels.
>>
>> my 2pings.
>>
>> walu.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>> On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 8:12 PM AST (Arabian) Agosta Liko wrote:
>>
>> Walu
>>
>>
>> How does local hosting does give local enforcement (police, prosecution,
>>
>> judiciary) some teeth ?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 7:46 PM, Walubengo J <jwalu at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> @WhiteAfrican,
>>
>>
>> I do get your message.  But your language might be considered too strong
>>
>> by @BlackAfrican standard and folks may take offense. Check Ali's post on
>>
>> the same - same message, different words :-)
>>
>>
>> That said, I think the King @CCK has been caught "naked".    Maybe the
>>
>> planned regulation is to make ALL GOVERNMENT data local (which is within
>>
>> the government/regulatory scope to make the call). Or maybe he was
>>
>> misquoted, or maybe I might be trying to hard to do the PR job for CCK...
>>
>>
>> @Wambua, you have off late gone completely underground?
>>
>>
>> walu.
>>
>> nb: the benefit of local hosting within the context of cybersecurity was
>>
>> argued on a 1-on-1 between me and Sammy B and we came to some consensus :-
>>
>> that local hosting does give local enforcement (police, prosecution,
>>
>> judiciary) some teeth...and by extension this in itself can act as
>>
>> deterrent against would-be cybercriminals.
>>
>>
>> I however dont think that this should  lead to a decree that everyone MUST
>>
>> host locally because then I will have to give up my jwalu at yahoo.com mail
>>
>> account to avoid hosting my mails abroad :-)
>>
>>
>>
>> --------------------------------------------
>>
>> On Wed, 11/27/13, Erik Hersman <erik at zungu.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Subject: Re: [kictanet] CCK PUSHES LOCAL FIRMS TO HOST WEBSITES LOCALLY
>>
>>  To: jwalu at yahoo.com
>>
>> Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
>>
>> Date: Wednesday, November 27, 2013, 4:41 PM
>>
>>
>>  This is the kind of
>>
>> stupidity that makes you wonder if the people dealing with
>>
>> the internet regulations and policy at CCK even know what
>>
>>  the internet is.
>>
>>
>>
>>  --
>>
>> Erik Hersman
>>
>>
>> Ushahidi | iHub | BRCK at WhiteAfrican
>>
>>
>> On Nov 27, 2013, at 8:12 AM, Rad!
>>
>> <conradakunga at gmail.com>
>>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Absolutely absurd if this is in
>>
>> fact true.
>>
>> How does hosting sites locally mitigated against
>>
>> cybercrime?
>>
>>
>>  What business does anyone have dictating to me
>>
>> where i can and can't host my websites?
>>
>>
>>
>>  On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at
>>
>> 6:35 AM, Ali Hussein <ali at hussein.me.ke>
>>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>  Listers
>>
>>
>> The Communications
>>
>> Commission of Kenya has proposed a licensing condition that
>>
>>  may compel Internet service providers (ISPs) to bring
>>
>> websites hosted offshore back to the country in the fight
>>
>>  against cyber crime...
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Corporate-News/CCK-pushes-firms-to-host-websites-locally-in-new-rules/-/539550/2089412/-/15ly5o1z/-/index.html
>>
>>
>> I sincerely hope that the DG was
>>
>>  somehow misquoted on this story. Whilst its a good idea to
>>
>> host sites locally this in no way stops cybercrime or
>>
>> mitigates it. Infact with the rudimentary security
>>
>> infrastructure most providers have I will be loath to host
>>
>> any site locally leave alone an Ecommerce one
>>
>> locally.
>>
>>
>> Can government please focus on
>>
>>  legislation and regulation instead of butting into my
>>
>> business and telling me where I should host my website??
>>
>>
>>
>>  Ali Hussein
>>
>>
>> +254 0770 906375 / 0713
>>
>> 601113
>>
>> "I fear the day technology will
>>
>> surpass human interaction. The world will have a generation
>>
>>  of idiots".  ~ Albert Einstein
>>
>>
>> Sent from my iPad
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