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<body>@John Paul<br>Your idea of creating counter content is so on point! It is important to offer solutions to challenges. <br>
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<br><br><br>On Thursday, 12-07-2018 at 02:00 John Paul Karijo via kictanet wrote:<br><blockquote style="border:0;border-left: 2px solid #22437f; padding:0px; margin:0px; padding-left:5px; margin-left: 5px; "><div dir="ltr">I think the internet and all the various platforms that have been built on top of it have done so much for freedom.<br>The fact that anyone can now become a content producer and that anyone can have an audience.<br><br>The internet has helped push the boundaries of creativity... challenge morality... challenge cultures... <div><br></div><div>My greatest fear wouldn't be to regulate consumption - that has always failed... (when we were kids pre-internet days there was always ways to beat regulation with porn flicks and magazines. They were so pervasive that they found their way into even mission schools) - okay moving away from this sex and morality obsession.<br><br>My fear would be the pervasiveness of content that no longer challenges the thought process... content that does not encourage research or reading or the seeking of answers. The pervasiveness of content that holds simplistic views of the world.<br>In answer to my own fears I would not urge that such content is removed, censored or charged fees for being on the internet - no my answer would be to produce thought provoking content and compete with "shallow" content. - Counter Content<br>In answer to my own fears I would promote the whole development of the person in school - think curriculum reforms... I would want to create young people who can think... young people who have learnt how to learn.... how to see truth and facts. - "Consumer Development"</div><div><br></div><div>So I would encourage proponents of censorship to instead become sponsors of counter content. If you have strict moral beliefs... create content that encourage the practice of such a code of morality... share this content and make it pervasive... if there is fake news - counter it with investigative and in depth truth.<br>The truth has to find ways to move as fast as the fake... The internet is the platform where this has to happen - "Counter Pervasiveness"<br><br>Of course there is the thing with economics - we have to make it pay to produce truth... we have to make depth rank better than mediocrity. <br>If decadence sells it is because our society and our economy is built on decadence.<br><br>
<div style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font color="#ff2600"><span style="font-size:14px">(a) What does '</span><i style="font-size:14px">content regulation</i><span style="font-size:14px"><i>’</i></span><i style="font-size:14px"> </i><span style="font-size:14px">mean?</span></font></div><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-size:14px">I would define this as any control that is imposed on content that does not come from the producer or the consumer of the content that would prevent production or consumption of such content. <br>Forms include platform control, parental control, government control methods could include | fees e.g. reading research material on JSTOR, taxes and social media access fees | outright viewing bans such as what is done by KFCB in Kenya | The ability of platforms to take down reported content - compare Facebook and Reddit... Reddit is close to anarchy but really that is what the internet was made for...</span></div><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-size:14px"><br></span></div><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-size:14px"><font color="#ff40ff">(b) How is content regulation achieved?</font></span></div><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-size:14px">I think regulation isn't achieved only by banning... making costs of production prohibitive or punitive is regulation enough. Case in point what Uganda and Tanzania are doing in terms of social media access fees or blogging tax.<br><br>The internet was designed for freedom and openness - any financial charge to access or create content is a way of regulation and in some cases suppression.</span></div><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-size:14px"><br></span></div><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-size:14px"><br></span></div><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-size:14px"><font color="#942192">(c) What categories of content face the most regulation? </font></span></div>I feel that Video and Film face the most regulation... it is so difficult to be a producer of these in Kenya... aside from the possibility of bans even the access to support to screen...to shoot.... to fund a production is an uphill task.</div><div><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline">
So instead of regulating films like Wanuri Kahiu's Rafiki - I would have it screened in class and ask students to discuss. (Remember Consumer Development)<br><br>Also it is counterproductive to ban screening of Kenyan producers films i.e. regulate content produced within our country while if I walk to Moi Avenue right now I can buy several seasons of the American production L - Word and I can get several seasons of BBCs Lip Service..<br><br></div><div>If I am looking for deeper stories instead of just mainstream lesbian stories I can access content from film Producers in Canada such as Patricia Rozema. I think Wanuri's short film would rank even higher on depth than the examples I have mentioned. <br><br>So anyway based on my earlier proposal on using "Counter Content" and "Counter Pervasiveness" and "Consumer Development" we are doing ourselves dis-favor by banning our own locally produced works... banning our own stories... while being inundated by content that doesn't tell our truth... our reality.<br><br><br><br></div><div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>With kind regards</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Jeipea</div><div><br></div><div>Believe in yourself then you can change your world</div><div><br></div><div>____________________________________________</div><div>Skype: john.paul.em</div><div>Cell: +254735586956</div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 12:11 AM esther kamande via kictanet <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(68,68,68)">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%;background:white"><font face="Bookman Old Style, serif"><span style="font-size:16px">Hi Listers, </span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%;background:white"><font face="Bookman Old Style, serif"><span style="font-size:16px"><br></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%;background:white"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%;background:white"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif;color:rgb(255,64,255)">(b) How is content
regulation achieved?</span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%;background:white"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%;margin:0in 0in 8pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif">Through
intermediary liability laws. These laws generally require platforms to remove
content in at least some circumstances, with obligations usually triggered when
the platform learns about illegal material. Platforms operate notice and
take-down programs as a way both to comply with such laws and to enforce their
own discretionary content policies.<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);background:white"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%;background:white"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%;background:white"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif;color:rgb(148,33,146)">(c) What categories
of content face the most regulation? </span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%;margin:0in 0in 8pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background:white"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%;margin:0in 0in 8pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background:white">Internet platforms largely as a result of the
mounting public demands for aggressive intervention.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%;margin:0in 0in 8pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif">Calls
for companies like YouTube and Facebook to fight problems ranging from “fake
news” to hate speech to online radicalization seem to make daily headlines even gathering support from the top leadership not just locally but globally i.e </span><span style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif;font-size:12pt">British
prime minister Theresa May, “Industry needs to go further and faster” in
removing prohibited content by developing automated filters to
detect and suppress it automatically.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%;margin:0in 0in 8pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%;margin:0in 0in 8pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;line-height:16.8667px"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px;font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);background:white">We sometimes decry the intrusion of platform moderation, and sometimes decry its absence.</span><span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;line-height:16.8667px;background:white"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px;font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif"><span> </span></span></p>
<br><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%;margin:0in 0in 8pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif">
</span></p><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;color:rgb(34,34,34);letter-spacing:0.2px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Regards,</font></p><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;color:rgb(34,34,34);letter-spacing:0.2px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Esther Kamande </span><br></p><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;color:rgb(34,34,34);letter-spacing:0.2px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Advocate | Policy Analyst</font></p><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;color:rgb(34,34,34);letter-spacing:0.2px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Twitter: @enkamande</span></p>
<br><p style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%;margin:0in 0in 8pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%;margin:0in 0in 8pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif"><br></span></p>
<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 9:26 AM kanini mutemi via kictanet <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><span style="font-size:14px">Hello Listers, </span><div><span style="font-size:14px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:14px">I’ll start us off with the discussion on Content Regulation on the internet. I find it useful for us to first understand what content regulation means. To this end, I invite your contributions to the following questions–</span></div><div><span style="font-size:14px"><br></span></div><div><font color="#ff2600"><span style="font-size:14px">(a) What does '</span><i style="font-size:14px">content regulation</i><span style="font-size:14px"><i>’</i></span><i style="font-size:14px"> </i><span style="font-size:14px">mean?</span></font></div><div><span style="font-size:14px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:14px"><font color="#ff40ff">(b) How is content regulation achieved?</font></span></div><div><span style="font-size:14px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:14px"><font color="#942192">(c) What categories of content face the most regulation? </font></span></div><div><span style="font-size:14px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:14px">Let’s go! </span></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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