Grace, why would you argue that political coverage on TV/in the media can be less easily monitored than on the internet? If anything, media outlets have owners and employees and should have (yeah yeah, I know) control mechanism to check for libel, hate speech etc. On the internet, it's the Wild West - it's incredibly difficult to hold anyone to account. And you can take any TV or radio quote from a politician and play that back to him/her. <br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 5 December 2012 10:51, Grace Mutung'u (Bomu) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nmutungu@gmail.com" target="_blank">nmutungu@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Sometimes I feel as if Kenya is a unique case that requires tailored interventions. For instance, with all due respect to Article 19, and while we should never blanket shut down twitter etc, there should surely be a fast response mechanism to inciteful speech online as well as broadcasts. eg a Commissioner of Assize or a dedicated court so that people do not continue to spew, retweet and disseminate hate speech. <br>
<br>At the moment, there are already not necessarily hateful or incitement speech but (clever)statements that are building up collective psyche towards hardline positions. How long should we leave such statements to ethics? Shouldn't we just black them out? The argument that we should combat hate speech with massive "love" speech it seems, will not work in Kenya unless "love" speakers get the resources that hate speakers have. I get so concerned for Kenya every time I watch 7pm news......Can't something be done to stem this clever speech that most people would agree is likely to lead to hardline positions and God forbid, violence....For example, cant media houses limit the duration/coverage of political rallies so that the parties have to find other avenues for their messages eg Internet where their content can be monitored by we the people (without the risk of the parties/candidates saying, "I was misquoted")<br>
<br>And most importantly, especially for March elections, there needs to be some regulation of media reporting election results. For example having media houses refrain from predicting or calling it (however obvious it may seem)<br>
And is current legislation sufficient? Maybe not (at least not the National Cohesion and Integration Act) . And the circumstances are not helping, since defining cases are yet to concluded/have been withdrawn...<br> <br>
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<br><div class="gmail_quote">2012/12/5 Victor Kapiyo <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:vkapiyo@gmail.com" target="_blank">vkapiyo@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>Listers,<br></div><div><br></div><div>I think the focus should not be on shutting down the Internet, tv or radio stations hence inconveniencing the entire nation and infringing everyone's constitutionally guaranteed rights while at it. </div>
<div><br></div><div>There is sufficient legislation to deal with hate speech and related offences and media enterprises that violate the law, hence the responsible regulatory institutions should be focusing on how prepared they are to implement the law by investigating and arresting the specific offenders. Indeed before such drastic action is contemplated, the consequences need to be borne in mind.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Victor</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div>On 5 December 2012 06:13, Baiju Shah <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:baiju@tele2media.com" target="_blank">baiju@tele2media.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div>There must be a framework within the Kenyan law that outlines what could be done and not done?<br>
<br>
If there is a violation it is the right of the authorities either deal with the immediately or the platform provider can comply to the law by self governing as they do for all aspects in running their businesses. E.g. Likes Google and Twitter have created in house expertise / legal capability to build into their systems what one can do and not do by geo location.<br>
<br>
The governance / audit in Kenya now should be do they comply with our laws? If not then they should be given 2/3 months to include a layer of business rules that will include for the system / platform provider to comply, where is KEBS :)<br>
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On 5 Dec 2012, at 04:46, McTim <<a href="mailto:dogwallah@gmail.com" target="_blank">dogwallah@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 7:43 PM, Daniel Waweru <<a href="mailto:daniel.waweru@gmail.com" target="_blank">daniel.waweru@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> One case, at least, strikes me as obvious: if you have good reason to think<br>
> that broadcasting material would lead to a direct threat to the safety of<br>
> some other person, then there's good reason not to broadcast it.<br>
<br>
<br>
That is true, but that is an editorial judgement on the part of the<br>
media house/radio station/newspaper.<br>
<br>
If they violate the law, then there MUST be consequences.<br>
<br>
<br>
If there's<br>
> a means of communication which persistently puts out stuff that meets that<br>
> standard, then there's a pretty good case for shutting it down.<br>
<br>
if it is a single radio station for example, then yes, a court could<br>
find them in violation of the law and order them to cease.<br>
<br>
That doesn't mean ALL radio stations should be shutdown.<br>
<br>
that's is my 2 bob anyway.<br>
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--<br>
Cheers,<br>
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