- HARARE - Zimbabwe's government
has proposed new contracts for all internet service providers that will
force them to block content or report "malicious messages" to
the authorities.
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- The proposed contract obliges internet service providers
(ISPs) to "take all necessary measures to prevent" any content
inconsistent with Zimbabwe laws to be carried on its network.
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- "The provider shall ensure that objectionable, obscene,
unauthorised or any other content, message or communications infringing
copyright, intellectual property right and international and domestic cyber
laws... inconsistent with the laws of Zimbabwe are not carried in his network."
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- The contract also obliges ISPs to "provide, without
delay, all the tracing facilities of the nuisance or malicious messages
or communications transported through his equipment and network, to authorised
officers of... the government of Zimbabwe, when such information is required
for investigations of crimes or in the interests of national security."
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- Police in Zimbabwe last year arrested 14 people accused
of circulating a subversive electronic mail message calling for "violent
demonstrations and strikes to push Robert Mugabe out of office".
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