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...

Check out the Rock 'n' roll film festival, Kenya TV Channel!
http://kenyarockfilmfestivaljournal.blogspot.com


On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 9:32 PM, Mwendwa Kivuva via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

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

On Feb 10, 2016 7:20 PM, "Ali Hussein via isoc" <isoc@lists.my.co.ke> wrote:

Listers

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. 

See link below.

Africa needs to define its own Net Neutrality rules..And this needs to be done yesterday.

Ali Hussein
Tel: +254 713 601113

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Famed venture capitalist criticized India net neutrality rule and tweeted India would have done better economically under the British Empire. 

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-02-10/marc-andreessen-pro-colonialism-tweet-riles-up-india-tech-world

Arzak

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