You. Cannot. Be. Serious. I for one refuse to entertain the thought of Government controlling what I can and cannot access. Have your read 1984 by Georger Orwell? On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Philip Musyoki <pmusyoki@gmail.com> wrote:
Lately I have been thinking of all this censorship and web blocking in China and I begun to think may be it is a good thing and may be in leads to some sort of development. Let assume our wonderful Government of the Republic wanted to do the same, and since they do not have the capacity right now, they will start by building the capacity. They will build large server farms to filter every website coming to the country throught their large-capacity fiber optic (maybe called TEAMs) cable that they control. Then they will hire highly qualified technies in the fields of computer science, programming, partical physics, cryptograph to maintain this elaborate system.
Now the republic will also want to listen to every word Kenyans utter on their mobiles or land lines, so they will setup an NSA styled facility somewhere in rural Kenya and may be eve setup a chip factory to custom make their chips so that they can tailor them to do whatever nice thing they dream up. And it goes on.
And the they will hire a Chief Information Officer, or a ICT Czar and they would love to call him, to oversee. And so on and so on.
And after all is said and done, they will then setup a commission to examine how the system works and it can be made work better.
Just my thoughts.