[kictanet] To be or not to be a pseudonymous blogger

Tue Mar 15 15:19:12 EAT 2016

Greetings Barrack,

Can the internet justify its being "driven by trust"?

Let us take banking which in the last week has tried to convince Kenyans not to run react, that all banks are not falling in Kenya or pulling out of Kenya through the Kenya Bankers Association adverts.
This is a coordinated effort by the players to have a system that builds relative trust (note the word relative). Secondly banks operate in a similar way - central clearing house which gives the government a point to reference with on that is happening in the industry even if there may still be slip ups and covert activities such as money laundering

The internet appears to the rule of the jungle. Even more the Government itself seems to have no point to have "real" control or coordination.The creators seem to have this control.
Perhaps this should've been done when the internet was invented.

Again this also takes us to the question, who owns the internet? Because they would have all the answers - from control, access, coordination which is a role that Governments play in most if not all sectors.Or is the Government to redefine its role where the internet is concerned?

PS: Na Barrack ukitumia majina makubwa makubwa like Social Engineering - you explain.

Blessed day.

Regards/Wangari

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On Tue, 15/3/16, Barrack Otieno via kictanet <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [kictanet] To be or not to be a pseudonymous blogger
 To: wangarikabiru at yahoo.co.uk
 Cc: "Barrack Otieno" <otieno.barrack at gmail.com>, "Nanjira Sambuli" <nanjira at ihub.co.ke>
 Date: Tuesday, 15 March, 2016, 13:49

 Many thanks Ebele,

 I agree with Nanjira's
 postulation. Whereas Cabinet Secretary
 Mucheru's view point may be justified to a
 certain extent, it wouldn't
 be prudent
 since it will curtail the growth and developement of the
 Internet which has partly been driven by trust.
 My humble opinion is
 that if we take care of
 the Infrastructure issues such as natting, we
 don't need to worry about Pseudonym's.
 One way would be to encourage
 adoption of IP
 V 6 which avails an Internet Protocol address for every
 device which would in turn make it easy to
 trace sources of
 information. The government
 could also adopt an approach of educate
 users through Social Engineering. This is my
 opinion but i stand to be
 corrected.

 Best Regards

 On 3/15/16, Ebele Okobi via
 kictanet <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
 wrote:
 > Just a clarification-
 > Facebook absolutely agrees that there
 should be spaces on the Internet where
 >
 people can share anonymously, including some of our own
 properties, like
 > Instagram. That said,
 Facebook itself is a space where community and trust
 > depend upon people being able to connect
 with people they know, so Facebook
 >
 community standards require people to use names they are
 known to use in
 > "real"
 life.
 >
 > We do not
 proactively moderate for this, but fake accounts are
 definitely
 > taken down if and when they
 are reported to us, and we include mechanisms
 > for reporting fake names or accounts
 directly in the platform so that anyone
 >
 on Facebook, whether or not the reporting person has an
 account, can
 > report.
 >
 > Screen shot of report
 flow pasted below-
 > [image1.PNG]
 >
 > Ebele Okobi | Head of
 Public Policy, Africa
 > m. +44 (0) 771
 156 1315<tel:+44%20(0)%20771%20156%201315>
 > 10 Brock Street |
 London<x-apple-data-detectors://0/1> | NW1 3FG
 > ebeleokobi at fb.com<mailto:ebeleokobi at fb.com>
 >
 >
 [6F376569-CC77-422B-BAD3-794055B1E02B]
 >
 > On Mar 15, 2016, at
 9:27 AM, Nanjira Sambuli via kictanet
 >
 <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke<mailto:kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>>
 > wrote:
 >
 > To me, such a move would be in direct
 contravention of article 31 (d) of the
 >
 Constitution.
 >
 >
 Given that blogging in Kenya is taken to mean anyone with a
 social media
 > account expressing their
 opinions, I think it's a slippery slope. Facebook
 > tried to enforce a real name policy, I
 believe so did Google, and that
 >
 didn't bode well.
 >
 > While I see why the government would want
 to take that approach (and could
 > be
 argued with s 33(2)..), it is worrisome. And "clamping
 down" is a
 > militant choice of
 words...
 >
 >
 > Regards,
 > Nanjira.
 >
 > Sent from my
 iPhone.
 >
 > On 15 Mar
 2016, at 02:33,
 > kictanet-request at lists.kictanet.or.ke<mailto:kictanet-request at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
 > wrote:
 >
 > To be or not to be a pseudonymous
 blogger
 >
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