<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:#0b5394">This is so sad to see happen in my country Kenya. And at so many levels.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:#0b5394"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:#0b5394">I will set aside the constitution and the illegality of the situation because am not a constitutional expert of any kind. What I can comment on is that this is such a strategic failure by the perpetrators. It is actually so shocking that they cannot actually see that this only serves to add more fuel to the fire.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:#0b5394"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:#0b5394">Is this the caliber of people that we have at the top of our Industry? Are they not able to advise the government of how futile it is to attempt to shutdown communication in today's world???</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:#0b5394"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:#0b5394">As for the Kenyan Media - you deserve this. You are a greedy and self serving lot. Just the other day we heard recordings of a certain journalist being threatened. Where was the collective response? Shame on you too.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:#0b5394"><br clear="all"><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"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:small;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)">Regards,</div><div style="font-size:small;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)"><br></div><div style="font-size:small;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)">Kevin</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 30 January 2018 at 13:34, Wathagi Ndungu via kictanet <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto: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"><div dir="ltr">A creeping back of autocracy. This is outside the perimeter of the constitution.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="m_-73062419431825341gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Best Regards,</div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Joy Wathagi Ndungu</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Co-Founder, Digital Grassroots <a href="http://Grassrootswww.digitalgrassroots.org" target="_blank">www.<wbr>digitalgrassroots.org</a></span></div><div>Phone number :<b>+254706690282 </b></div><div>Alternate Email 1: <b><a href="mailto:joy.w@digitalgrassroots.org" target="_blank">joy.w@digitalgrassroots.org</a> </b>Alternate Email 2: <b><a href="mailto:jndungu@studentsforliberty.org" target="_blank">jndungu@<wbr>studentsforliberty.org</a></b></div><div>8638-00300 Nairobi, Kenya</div><div><br></div><div><img width="96" height="54" style="font-size:12.8px"></div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div><a href="http://www.digitalgrassroots.org" target="_blank">www.digitalgrassroots.org</a><br></div><div><a href="https://www.facebook.com/digitalgrassroots/" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/<wbr>digitalgrassroots/</a></div><div><a href="https://twitter.com/digigrassroots" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/<wbr>digigrassroots<br></a><br><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 1:20 PM, Odhiambo Washington via kictanet <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a><wbr>></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 class="h5"><div dir="ltr">Jubilee can go ahead and switch off the Sun, FaceBook & Twitter.<div><br></div><div>At the height of the protests in Egypt, the dictator president, Hosni Mubarak, decided to shut down the Internet as well. That did not stop Egyptians from remaining Egyptians.</div><div>Who triumphed?</div><div>Just because an ostrich decides to bury its head in the sand so as not to see what is happening around doesn't make it safe for the ostrich.</div><div><br></div><div>No need to </div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="m_-73062419431825341h5">On 30 January 2018 at 11:48, Deborah via kictanet <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a><wbr>></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 class="m_-73062419431825341h5"><div><div><div style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">My apologies. I now understand the situation. I'm working away from the TV most of the time. This last time I went by I was corrected that the decoder has a subscription, and even then NTV, KTN and Citizen were off. It seems they defied the ban on broadcasting live political events. My question would now be on the justification of the ban. </div></div><div dir="ltr"><hr><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold">From: </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"><a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">Keith Andere via kictanet</a></span><br><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold">Sent: </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">30/01/2018 11:09</span><br><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold">To: </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"><a href="mailto:deborah.wanjugu@gmail.com" target="_blank">deborah.wanjugu@gmail.com</a></span><br><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold">Cc: </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"><a href="mailto:kephand@gmail.com" target="_blank">Keith Andere</a></span><br><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold">Subject: </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">Re: [kictanet] TV signals turned off</span><br><br></div><div><div class="m_-73062419431825341m_-2193851798820747991h5"><div dir="auto">KTN News too. Channels are off on all free to air platforms.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">KTN News and NTV are available on DSTV. <br><br><div dir="auto" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Regards,<br><br>Keith.</div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 30 Jan 2018 10:53, "Sidney Ochieng via kictanet" <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a><wbr>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid"><div><div dir="auto">Citizen and NTV. </div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div>On Tue, 30 Jan 2018 at 10:33, Deborah <<a href="mailto:deborah.wanjugu@gmail.com" target="_blank">deborah.wanjugu@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid"><div><div><div style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">Hey Sidney,<br><br>Which signals have been turned off? I went to check and found them all on and transmitting normally with the exception of Citizen. It usually has issues on the Startimes decoder. <br><br>Deborah</div></div></div><div><div><hr><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold">From: </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"><a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">Sidney Ochieng via kictanet</a></span><br><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold">Sent: </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">30/01/2018 10:26</span><br><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold">To: </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"><a href="mailto:deborah.wanjugu@gmail.com" target="_blank">deborah.wanjugu@gmail.com</a></span><br><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold">Cc: </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"><a href="mailto:sidney.ochieng@gmail.com" target="_blank">Sidney Ochieng</a></span><br><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold">Subject: </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">[kictanet] TV signals turned off</span><br><br></div></div><div><div dir="auto">Listers, </div><div dir="auto">How long before they come for the internet? 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