Kidding Right?

[Peapod]

I was just trolling through sites that mention MyADSL (or Mr White) to see what sort of press we have generated and where...and came accross an article from March 2003 where Steve White is quoted as saying some pretty amazing things...

When speaking of 3Gb threshold...

"<font color="blue">These tweaks will not address the concerns of the ISPs or of many users, but White believes other problems need education rather than technical solutions. One example he identifies is a "local is lekker" campaign to maximise the use of South African resources.

<i>"South Africans pay a tax living in SA; we are very far away from where most of the content is [in North America]," he says. "We need to tell people that there is often content in SA that can replace what they are getting overseas."</font id="blue"></i> "

How arrogant can one man be and who the hell does he think he is "re-educating" the public by restricting their access to information? And as he speaks for Telkom, how can an organisation get away with restricting to a local market what should be freely available to us as it is to the rest of the world? I mean - apartheid was over in the early 90's. What Telkom are advocating is censorship.

See http://www.itweb.co.za/sections/features/adsl/feature030324-4.asp?O=S&CiRestriction=steven%20white for the full article

Man I am axed! [!] [}]

More on our press in ITWeb
http://196.30.226.221/services/Landing.asp?Link=sections/telecoms/2003/0308061038.asp&O=S&cirestriction=myadsl
and
http://196.30.226.221/services/Landing.asp?Link=sections/telecoms/2003/0308071132.asp&O=S&cirestriction=steven%20white

 

[desraid]

what a n00b!! [V]

 

[VQuest]

I was just thinking the same thing - he is advocating a step backwards instead of a step forward. Makes no sense. Most of us make use of local sites, but good grief, I won't have anyone telling me what I can do with my internet connection.

It's funny (NOT) that the internet is here to OPEN doors and Telkom is trying to CLOSE doors. That tells you enough about our tel company. *grumble*


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[Peapod]

The thing that absolutely infuriates me is that statements like the ones quoted here go totally unchallenged - The interviewer accepts them, and nobody in any authority questioned this man at any level.

 

[SK33T]

I said that was censorship atleast 2 months ago
Which goes to show Im not the only one who thinks so.
What the hell does the guy want us to do?
Look at the pictures of voortrekker monument all day

 

[bullstein]

This is typical of the attitude telkom is advocating. They want to tell us what we can do with the internet, although in the rest of the civilized world there are no such restrictions.

And there are actually people that believe in this crap.

I think telkom should start learning the meaning of INTERnet in the first place. If it was to surf only national sites it would be called Nationet or some such thing. LOL

 

[ckleynhans]

Again, Steve White has a complete misconception about extend of the Internet. We don't only surf only because we want a "lekker" feeling but also because we want to have access to important information resources overseas. These don't exist locally.

If we can have some "guarantees" in the ADSL service which mr White is unwilling to give, such as for minimum throughput we may make it feasable for streaming and fun services to start up locally. But start your own radio station on the net and see if ICASA will like it?



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