[kictanet] "For Africans the Internet will never really be neutral". On net Neutrality in Africa

[Mwendwa Kivuva]

The dangerous position the US has taken may mean we might be forced to
accept and move on. When we join the bandwagon, it might be too late.
As things stand, it seems pro NetNeutrality advocates like Civil
Society are loosing. I see a lot of positive NetNeutrality violations
in Kenya like the zero rated services among some ISPs (FB and
Wikipedia being one of them), and also the Google cache at KIXP.
Internet users have experienced the ugly side often in our landscape,
among then trotting and unreliable fake "unlimited Internet".

NetNeutrality might be a good debate for the Kenyan IGF. Probably
then, we might find out the government position.

Regards

On 09/05/2014, Alice Munyua via kictanet <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
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> http://manypossibilities.net/2014/05/net-neutrality-in-africa/
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> Best
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> Alice
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