<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Listers</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Interesting development. Seems like the Senegalese Regulatory Authority wants to rewrite the Net Neutrality playbook.. See email thread below and link.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">My take is that at least they are making a stand on Net Neutrality. The question in Kenya after many years of barking at the trees we still don't have a formal conversation whether at the Policy or Regulatory level on Net Neutrality. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Mark my words, this will one day come to bite us..In places I dare not mention...</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Regards</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><b><font face="georgia, serif" size="2">Ali
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<br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Gus Rossi</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gus@publicknowledge.org">gus@publicknowledge.org</a>></span><br>Date: Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 3:02 AM<br>Subject: [global-nn] Net Neutrality in Senegal? Bad bill presented<br>To: <a href="mailto:nncoalition@mailman.edri.org">nncoalition@mailman.edri.org</a>, <a href="mailto:global-nn@lists.riseup.net">global-nn@lists.riseup.net</a>, "<a href="mailto:bestbits@lists.bestbits.net">bestbits@lists.bestbits.net</a>> <" <<a href="mailto:bestbits@lists.bestbits.net">bestbits@lists.bestbits.net</a>>, Luca Belli <<a href="mailto:luca.belli@fgv.br">luca.belli@fgv.br</a>>, Peter Micek <<a href="mailto:peter@accessnow.org">peter@accessnow.org</a>><br><br><br><div dir="ltr">Hi everyone,<div><br></div><div>I've read that Senegal is discussing new telecommunications law, with implications for net neutrality. This is <span style="font-size:12.8px">t</span><a href="http://cticdakar.us7.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=41682d288cc415e665c90fd35&id=c17cb643f4&e=78f73eb4fe" style="font-size:12.8px" target="_blank">he original text</a> (french). ASUTIC, a local NGO,<span style="font-size:12.8px"> is </span><a href="http://asutic.org/fr/Le-Ministere-des-postes-et-telecommunications-legalise-la-censure-d%27internet-nos-libertes-menacees" style="font-size:12.8px" target="_blank">worried</a><span style="font-size:12.8px"> about the Bill. </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><b>I am specially concerned because the last paragraph of Article 28 of the proposed bill reads, that otherwise establishes a decent outline for net neutrality, reads:</b></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><i>L'Autorité de régulation peut autoriser ou imposer toute mesure de gestion du trafic qu'elle juge utile pour, notamment, préserver l'équilibre économique et la concurrence dans le secteur des communications électroniques et veiller au traitement équitable de services similaires.</i></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><i><b><br></b></i></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><b>In English: </b><i>The Regulatory Authority may authorize or impose any traffic management measure it deems necessary to, inter alia, preserve the economic equilibrium and competition in the electronic communications sector and ensure the fair treatment of similar services.</i></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><i><br></i></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">This is problematic because it advances the free-rider fallacy about OTTs and breaks the net neutrality principle. It would be bad if this kind of language that undermines net neutrality starts spreading across the region and the world.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">The Senegalese Ministry of Telecommunications (which webpage was down today, the irony) is holding a public consultation. I did some reading (my french is not perfect) and people can email their comments on the bill to <a href="mailto:mamoune.ngom@gouv.sn" target="_blank">mamoune.ngom@gouv.sn</a></span><br></div></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Does anyone know more about what's going on in Senegal with this bill? Anyone doing anything? 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