FPB earmarks R8m to censor online

Wahahaha...

This is going to be funny to watch when Youtube and Wikipedia etc tell the FPB to go stick their heads up their rectal cavities...
 
Just host your website on an overseas server and the FPB can't touch you, problem solved.
 
I don't the aim is to physically stop people from publishing certain content online, but to create a sort of minefield whereby the onus is on the individual to avoid being caught. I also think they will target the consumer of outlawed content as in the case of illegal porn.
 
koeksGHT said:
It's not where the content is hosted but where it is distributed
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Sure, but the fact that any website from anywhere in the world can be "distributed" in South Africa at the click of a button means that this legislation is effectively unenforceable.
 
Pffft R8m - Couldnt even build an executive kraal at Nkandla for that ....

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/waits for FPB in anticipation ....
 
I would love to know what the real pretext is for all of this. Is it the overzealous nanny-state concern of some deluded self-righteous individuals who think they have the right to protect us from ourselves, or is there some darker sinister motive of a government desperate to silence criticism at any cost? Or maybe a combination of both. Either way it's disturbing that people want to control what we read on the internet.
 
deweyzeph said:
Sure, but the fact that any website from anywhere in the world can be "distributed" in South Africa at the click of a button means that this legislation is effectively unenforceable.
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The max they could do is this.

And they are successful with it.

(Funny thing, some ISPs doesn't follow it completely.)
 
Nothing different than Turkey, Korea and China trying to censor information. This will backfire one way or another.

In the end it will fall back to ISPs having to deal with takedowns. This will never be enforceable as people will just use VPNs to bypass distribution limits and trying to claim damages from Google or Amazon will be laughed off
 
deweyzeph said:
I would love to know what the real pretext is for all of this. Is it the overzealous nanny-state concern of some deluded self-righteous individuals who think they have the right to protect us from ourselves, or is there some darker sinister motive of a government desperate to silence criticism at any cost? Or maybe a combination of both. Either way it's disturbing that people want to control what we read on the internet.
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Simple, a cadre at the FPB wants more money. How to do this? Do something utterly ridiculous like this and ask for more. Government is either too stupid to understand said ridiculousness...or in on it. Either way, it's business as usual and someone gets more for doing nothing extra.
 
deweyzeph said:
Sure, but the fact that any website from anywhere in the world can be "distributed" in South Africa at the click of a button means that this legislation is effectively unenforceable.
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China has been doing this... Mmm forever ? Very effectively too
 
Dictatorship. Censorship. Thats what this country is turning into. Seriously need to stand up against it together >_>
Im one for sick of this crap. This is doing NOTHING to help the country in any shape or form. Only to suck more money out of us and prevent the people behind it all from ever being talked about negatively. Because if you do "Oh this needs to be censored, can't have the rest of the world seeing this. Don't want people supporting freedom of speech and human rights."

We need to do everything we can to prevent this from happening. They're hiding behind the lies of trying to protect children from seeing things they shouldn't. It is absolute garbage. That is not their motive for this crap. And even if it was, it's a very poor way of doing things too.
 
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