Zimbabwe's Army Chief says Social Media Activism is Cyber Warfare
Listers News from Zim says that the Army Chief has declared Social Media activism as Cyber-Warfare. HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's army commander said on Friday that his soldiers will deal with threats from activists using social media to mobilise anti-government protests, the first time the military has commented on the demonstrations. Lieutenant-General Valerio Sibanda, the Zimbabwe National Army Commander, said in an interview with state-owned The Herald newspaper that social media activism was cyber warfare that the army would deal with. http://af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFKCN10G0Z0?sp=true Ali Hussein Principal Hussein & Associates +254 0713 601113 / 0770906375 Twitter: @AliHKassim Skype: abu-jomo LinkedIn: http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim "Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought". ~ Albert Szent-Györgyi Sent from my iPad Ali Hussein Principal Hussein & Associates +254 0713 601113 / 0770906375 Twitter: @AliHKassim Skype: abu-jomo LinkedIn: http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim "Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought". ~ Albert Szent-Györgyi Sent from my iPad
Ali, "The pen is mightier than the sword." - Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton Those who seek to oppress and dominate will always fear the dissemination of information (by whatever means it is disseminated). It used to be mainstream media - now it is "social media". It is surely the right of those who elect our "public servants" (who mostly don't see themselves as "servants"!) to hold them to account and to criticise their actions. In civilised societies, such criticism, true or false, is accepted as a necessity of democracy. Cheers, Tony On 06/08/2016, Ali Hussein via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
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News from Zim says that the Army Chief has declared Social Media activism as Cyber-Warfare.
HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's army commander said on Friday that his soldiers will deal with threats from activists using social media to mobilise anti-government protests, the first time the military has commented on the demonstrations.
Lieutenant-General Valerio Sibanda, the Zimbabwe National Army Commander, said in an interview with state-owned The Herald newspaper that social media activism was cyber warfare that the army would deal with.
http://af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFKCN10G0Z0?sp=true
Ali Hussein Principal Hussein & Associates +254 0713 601113 / 0770906375
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This is a very dangerous threat to freedom of expression, so I suddenly become a soldier for supporting one side instead of the other ? It's akin to punishing a war time correspondent for not supporting a war. Pure insanity. Kind regards, Rosemary Koech-Kimwatu. On 6 Aug 2016 07:16, "Tony White via kictanet" < kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
Ali,
"The pen is mightier than the sword." - Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Those who seek to oppress and dominate will always fear the dissemination of information (by whatever means it is disseminated). It used to be mainstream media - now it is "social media".
It is surely the right of those who elect our "public servants" (who mostly don't see themselves as "servants"!) to hold them to account and to criticise their actions.
In civilised societies, such criticism, true or false, is accepted as a necessity of democracy.
Cheers, Tony
On 06/08/2016, Ali Hussein via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
Listers
News from Zim says that the Army Chief has declared Social Media activism as Cyber-Warfare.
HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's army commander said on Friday that his soldiers will deal with threats from activists using social media to mobilise anti-government protests, the first time the military has commented on the demonstrations.
Lieutenant-General Valerio Sibanda, the Zimbabwe National Army Commander, said in an interview with state-owned The Herald newspaper that social media activism was cyber warfare that the army would deal with.
http://af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFKCN10G0Z0?sp=true
Ali Hussein Principal Hussein & Associates +254 0713 601113 / 0770906375
Twitter: @AliHKassim Skype: abu-jomo LinkedIn: http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim
"Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought". ~ Albert Szent-Györgyi
Sent from my iPad Ali Hussein Principal Hussein & Associates +254 0713 601113 / 0770906375
Twitter: @AliHKassim Skype: abu-jomo LinkedIn: http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim
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@ Ali, This is why the multistakeholder model is very important more so in educating and empowering stakeholders, very unusual for the military to comment on civilian matters. In other news, the Zimbabwean courts could not find any charges to lock up Pastor Evan Mawarire of 'This Flag Fame', i am not surprised they are looking at another angle of charging him, the social movement is still hot after bringing business in Zimbabwe at a Standstill some times last month or was it June using facebook. On 8/6/16, Rosemary Koech-Kimwatu via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
This is a very dangerous threat to freedom of expression, so I suddenly become a soldier for supporting one side instead of the other ?
It's akin to punishing a war time correspondent for not supporting a war. Pure insanity.
Kind regards,
Rosemary Koech-Kimwatu.
On 6 Aug 2016 07:16, "Tony White via kictanet" < kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
Ali,
"The pen is mightier than the sword." - Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Those who seek to oppress and dominate will always fear the dissemination of information (by whatever means it is disseminated). It used to be mainstream media - now it is "social media".
It is surely the right of those who elect our "public servants" (who mostly don't see themselves as "servants"!) to hold them to account and to criticise their actions.
In civilised societies, such criticism, true or false, is accepted as a necessity of democracy.
Cheers, Tony
On 06/08/2016, Ali Hussein via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
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News from Zim says that the Army Chief has declared Social Media activism as Cyber-Warfare.
HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's army commander said on Friday that his soldiers will deal with threats from activists using social media to mobilise anti-government protests, the first time the military has commented on the demonstrations.
Lieutenant-General Valerio Sibanda, the Zimbabwe National Army Commander, said in an interview with state-owned The Herald newspaper that social media activism was cyber warfare that the army would deal with.
http://af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFKCN10G0Z0?sp=true
Ali Hussein Principal Hussein & Associates +254 0713 601113 / 0770906375
Twitter: @AliHKassim Skype: abu-jomo LinkedIn: http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim
"Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought". ~ Albert Szent-Györgyi
Sent from my iPad Ali Hussein Principal Hussein & Associates +254 0713 601113 / 0770906375
Twitter: @AliHKassim Skype: abu-jomo LinkedIn: http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim
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-- Tony White
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