<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">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. <br><div apple-content-edited="true">
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">-- </span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="" id="bloop_sign_1377440951142585088" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Erik Hersman<br></div><div class="" id="bloop_sign_1377440951142585088" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></div><div class="" id="bloop_sign_1377440951142585088" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://ushahidi.com/">Ushahidi</a> | <a href="http://ihub.co.ke/">iHub</a> | <a href="http://brck.com/">BRCK</a></div><div class="" id="bloop_sign_1377440951142585088" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://twitter.com/whiteafrican">@WhiteAfrican</a></div><div class="" id="bloop_sign_1377440951142585088" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></div><div class="" id="bloop_sign_1377440951142585088" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></div></div><div><div>On Nov 27, 2013, at 8:12 AM, Rad! <<a href="mailto:conradakunga@gmail.com">conradakunga@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">Absolutely absurd if this is in fact true.<div><br></div><div>How does hosting sites locally mitigated against cybercrime?<br><div><br></div><div>What business does anyone have dictating to me where i can and can't host my websites?</div>
</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 6:35 AM, Ali Hussein <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ali@hussein.me.ke" target="_blank">ali@hussein.me.ke</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Listers</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><br>
</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">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...</span></div>
<div><span><br></span></div><div><span><a href="http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Corporate-News/CCK-pushes-firms-to-host-websites-locally-in-new-rules/-/539550/2089412/-/15ly5o1z/-/index.html" target="_blank">http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Corporate-News/CCK-pushes-firms-to-host-websites-locally-in-new-rules/-/539550/2089412/-/15ly5o1z/-/index.html</a></span></div>
<div><span><br></span></div><div><span>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.</span></div>
<div><span><br></span></div><div><span>Can government please focus on legislation and regulation instead of butting into my business and telling me where I should host my website?? <br></span><br><div><span>Ali Hussein</span></div>
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