[kictanet] The Kenya Information and Communication (Amendment) Bill, 2019 - No. 61 of 2019 (Malulu Injendi Bill)

[Mwendwa Kivuva]

Bad manners are contagious. This looks like a copy paste from Tanzania laws.

But it also shows a big ignorance in the drafters of the bill.

This amendments to KICA seeks to regulate creation of whatsapp groups!!
What nonsense is that? That if you want to start a baby shower group, you
need to get a licence from CA.

Then on blogging, you need a licence to blog!! JCofN. Since when did one
need a licence to write a book? Who tells the drafter of this bill that
writing a blog is any different than writing a book or magazine?

All these seems to infringe on Article 33, 36, and 37 of our constitution.

Waste of parliamentary time.



On Tue, Sep 24, 2019, 16:42 Twahir Hussein Kassim via kictanet <
kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

> Listers,
>
> Reference an article on Standard today (24th September 2019) titled
> "Facebook, WhatsApp groups admins to seek CA clearance" attached is the
> said bill.
>
> Whilst agreeably we need to regulate the social media inline with Internet
> Governance; the essence of this bill is both BACKWARD and OPPRESSIVE for
> lack of stronger terms to use.
>
> Having said that, it is imperative that we go through this with a tooth
> comb and point it's flaws and suggest better ways - a better way is
> definitely there. On this note, I think it is high time that we started
> looking at issue and put up measures before we get hit by such bills and
> start fire fighting.
>
> Let's roll up our sleeves.
>
> Twahir Hussein Kassim
> Email: twahir at hussein.me.ke
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