FPB flexes "Censorship Bill" and serves ISPs with ultimatum

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Internet service providers slapped with ultimatum under new censorship law

The Film and Publication Board (FPB) has issued a legal notice on South Africa’s Internet service providers demanding that they comply with amendments to the Film and Publications Act.

According to the FPB, service providers have 90 days to register with the regulator and provide various reports about prohibited materials on their networks.
 
Found the notice and updated the article with some ridiculous asks:

Service providers are required to report how they have:
  • Prominently displayed reasonable safety messages in a language that will be clearly understood by children, on all advertisements for a child-oriented service, as well as in the medium used to access such child-oriented service including, where appropriate, chatroom safety messages for chatrooms or similar contact services.
  • Provided a mechanism to enable children to report suspicious behaviour by any person in a chatroom to the service or access provider.
 
Jan said:
Found the notice and updated the article with some ridiculous asks:

Service providers are required to report how they have:
  • Prominently displayed reasonable safety messages in a language that will be clearly understood by children, on all advertisements for a child-oriented service, as well as in the medium used to access such child-oriented service including, where appropriate, chatroom safety messages for chatrooms or similar contact services.
  • Provided a mechanism to enable children to report suspicious behaviour by any person in a chatroom to the service or access provider.
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That's it. Philips Airfryers and @backstreetboy is banned. That device is dangerous and no child should be exposed to it.
 
Definitely written by a politician with the help of a business man.

They can try but the ANC is so corrupt and inept that it is incapable of building or implementing anything including censoring South Africa public networks to the scale of China.

Between DoH, HTTP/3, VPNs etc. ISPs are largely blind to the content traversing their networks and are limited to just knowing the source and destination, which doesn't help when a large chuck of it is behind the likes of Cloudflare public ranges.

EDIT: What is needed, is a reliable governing party that can build a support structure within SAPs that can work with international conterparts to handle the reporting and takedown of dangerous sites and services. This should not be made a problem of private business though they should work with the police.
 
Jan said:
Found the notice and updated the article with some ridiculous asks:

Service providers are required to report how they have:
  • Prominently displayed reasonable safety messages in a language that will be clearly understood by children, on all advertisements for a child-oriented service, as well as in the medium used to access such child-oriented service including, where appropriate, chatroom safety messages for chatrooms or similar contact services.
  • Provided a mechanism to enable children to report suspicious behaviour by any person in a chatroom to the service or access provider.
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Either okes at FPB are straight retarded or they're just being malicious.
 
Jan said:
Internet service providers slapped with ultimatum under new censorship law

The Film and Publication Board (FPB) has issued a legal notice on South Africa’s Internet service providers demanding that they comply with amendments to the Film and Publications Act.

According to the FPB, service providers have 90 days to register with the regulator and provide various reports about prohibited materials on their networks.
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Good thing I read the article...first thought this is about "piracy" again.

As you were....
 
I remember pre-stalin death there was one kill list, and afterwards another
 
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