Nation Media Group reported on Friday (17 Nov) of orders from the sector regulator, Communication Authority (CA), to desist from broadcasting live political activities. One does not need sophisticated analysis to see how it coincided with NASA’’s planned reception of Raila Odinga back into the country. This would have extended to online platforms as well, since most of these media companies livestream online, especially YouTube and Facebook. Nation Media ignored the order since it did not provide any legal provisions to justify its execution. I think this is the kind of pushback intermediaries should be engaging in when censorship orders are made. -Moses
Shouldn’t the CA be an independent agency? I’m curious to get an understanding why they would want to stop flow of information. Ali Hussein Hussein & Associates +254 0713 601113 / 0770906375 Twitter: @AliHKassim Skype: abu-jomo LinkedIn: http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim Blog: www.alyhussein.com "Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought". ~ Albert Szent-Györgyi Sent from my iPad
On 17 Nov 2017, at 10:12 PM, Mose Karanja via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
Nation Media Group reported on Friday (17 Nov) of orders from the sector regulator, Communication Authority (CA), to desist from broadcasting live political activities.
One does not need sophisticated analysis to see how it coincided with NASA’’s planned reception of Raila Odinga back into the country.
This would have extended to online platforms as well, since most of these media companies livestream online, especially YouTube and Facebook.
Nation Media ignored the order since it did not provide any legal provisions to justify its execution.
I think this is the kind of pushback intermediaries should be engaging in when censorship orders are made.
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Hey Moses Wpuld love to hear more about this. Did Nation publicise they were given the order? Has the CA confirmed or denied it? Did it go to any other media or publishibg houses? Also happy to do a call on Monday as well. Hope you are well! Best Faz Fadzai Madzingira | Policy Analyst, Africa Africa Solutions Ltd @ Facebook (m) +447702343321 (e) fmadzingira@fb.com<mailto:fmadzingira@fb.com> Sent from Samsung Mobile on O2. Please forgive typos. -------- Original message -------- From: Mose Karanja via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Date: 17/11/2017 21:13 (GMT+02:00) To: Fadzai Madzingira <fmadzingira@fb.com> Cc: Mose Karanja <mosekaranja@gmail.com> Subject: [kictanet] CA orders ignored Nation Media Group reported on Friday (17 Nov) of orders from the sector regulator, Communication Authority (CA), to desist from broadcasting live political activities. One does not need sophisticated analysis to see how it coincided with NASA’’s planned reception of Raila Odinga back into the country. This would have extended to online platforms as well, since most of these media companies livestream online, especially YouTube and Facebook. Nation Media ignored the order since it did not provide any legal provisions to justify its execution. I think this is the kind of pushback intermediaries should be engaging in when censorship orders are made. -Moses
Apologies all. I clicked reply all. Ignore the below. Thank you. Best Fadzai Fadzai Madzingira | Policy Analyst, Africa Africa Solutions Ltd @ Facebook (m) +447702343321 (e) fmadzingira@fb.com<mailto:fmadzingira@fb.com> Sent from Samsung Mobile on O2. Please forgive typos. -------- Original message -------- From: Fadzai Madzingira via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Date: 18/11/2017 22:59 (GMT+02:00) To: Fadzai Madzingira <fmadzingira@fb.com> Cc: Fadzai Madzingira <fmadzingira@fb.com> Subject: Re: [kictanet] CA orders ignored Hey Moses Wpuld love to hear more about this. Did Nation publicise they were given the order? Has the CA confirmed or denied it? Did it go to any other media or publishibg houses? Also happy to do a call on Monday as well. Hope you are well! Best Faz Fadzai Madzingira | Policy Analyst, Africa Africa Solutions Ltd @ Facebook (m) +447702343321 (e) fmadzingira@fb.com<mailto:fmadzingira@fb.com> Sent from Samsung Mobile on O2. Please forgive typos. -------- Original message -------- From: Mose Karanja via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Date: 17/11/2017 21:13 (GMT+02:00) To: Fadzai Madzingira <fmadzingira@fb.com> Cc: Mose Karanja <mosekaranja@gmail.com> Subject: [kictanet] CA orders ignored Nation Media Group reported on Friday (17 Nov) of orders from the sector regulator, Communication Authority (CA), to desist from broadcasting live political activities. One does not need sophisticated analysis to see how it coincided with NASA’’s planned reception of Raila Odinga back into the country. This would have extended to online platforms as well, since most of these media companies livestream online, especially YouTube and Facebook. Nation Media ignored the order since it did not provide any legal provisions to justify its execution. I think this is the kind of pushback intermediaries should be engaging in when censorship orders are made. -Moses
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