At the end of the day, we all have our biases and interests. <div><br></div><div>It is also said that Nations do not have permanent allies, but permanent interests. </div><div><br></div><div>As for telecom operators and Internet firms, them providing a service out of their own interest should thus not be seen as necessarily bad, or evil. </div><div><br></div><div>What regulators and policy makers should purpose themselves is whether businesses' interests align with those of consumers, and are not detrimental for consumers. </div><div><br></div><div>At the end of the day, we all work somewhere, offering a service or selling goods, and I can assure you that few of us do this entirely out of public interest. We deal with the public out of our own interest, and are employed out of our employers interest, and the public gets services and goods from us out of their own interest. </div><div><br></div><div>Thus, it is important to consider merits and demerits, rather than throwing the baby out with the bath water in the case of possibility of demerits, even when merits outweigh demerits. <br><br>On Thursday, 11 February 2016, Mildred Achoch via kictanet <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Fascinating! This inspired me to do a search on electronic colonialism and digital colonialism. Yesterday, I attended the launch of an animation degree programme that will be offered by USIU who are partnering with the French government and a French animation school. I think it's a wonderful thing but now, having known about this new type of colonialism, I can't help but wonder...<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Check out the Rock 'n' roll film festival, Kenya TV Channel! <br><a href="http://kenyarockfilmfestivaljournal.blogspot.com" target="_blank">http://kenyarockfilmfestivaljournal.blogspot.com</a><br><br></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 9:32 PM, Mwendwa Kivuva via kictanet <span dir="ltr"><<a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke');" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">Thanks Ali for this. I'd previously written in a Nation Newspaper article that Net Neutrality was Neo Colonialism. There you have it from the horse's mouth. Facebook itself. I must say that is very shameful and immoral too</p>
<div class="gmail_quote"><div><div>On Feb 10, 2016 7:20 PM, "Ali Hussein via isoc" <<a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','isoc@lists.my.co.ke');" target="_blank">isoc@lists.my.co.ke</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div><p dir="ltr">Listers</p>
<p dir="ltr">The issue of Net Neutrality is becoming pretty hot.. Marc Andreessen sparked a furious tweet storm by suggesting that India would have been better off under British rule because of the recent decision on Internet pricing and 'free' access. </p>
<p dir="ltr">See link below.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Africa needs to define its own Net Neutrality rules..And this needs to be done yesterday.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Ali Hussein <br>
Tel: +254 713 601113</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <<a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','director@ipop.org.pk');" target="_blank">director@ipop.org.pk</a>><br>Date: Feb 10, 2016 4:42 PM<br>Subject: Re: [global-nn] Colonialism in the Digital World<br>To: <<a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','azrak_khan@hotmail.com');" target="_blank">azrak_khan@hotmail.com</a>>, <<a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','global-nn@lists.riseup.net');" target="_blank">global-nn@lists.riseup.net</a>><br>Cc: <br><br type="attribution"><div><br></div>
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