Net Neutrality is internet service providers giving all information sources equal speed, equal protection. Losing net neutrality means ISPs give bandwidth priority to sources they prefer (ie. sources which pay them the most, Rothschilds, Bilderberg, the 1%, Big Brother) and it may mean your ISP charging you more for you to use your favorite sites, so loss of net neutrality promotes corporate/ISP media bias which undermines free speech and promotes censorship.

I can sympathize with liberty-defending free-marketeers and occasionally even defend corporate rights, but if you trust AT&T, Comcast, T-Mobile, and Verizon with more power to decide who sees what, you're not paying attention.

And don't buy the bullshit about Google and Facebook giving a fuck about you. The only reason they defend net neutrality is because they use the most bandwidth and don't want to be slowed down or undermined by ISPs who hate them for censoring rights activists and bending over backwards for Big Brother's Orwellian mass surveillance state. Unfortunately, ISPs who would penalize Oggle and Fascistbook are small and few and can't compete with global bankster billionaires, so the few possible benefits of ditching net neutrality are virtually non-existent.

If you want your internet to upload and download as fast as Bill Gates', you want net neutrality. If you want to destroy free speech, let the fascists off the leash.

Deeplinks Blog by Elliot Harmon | August 9, 2017
Don’t Let Congress Compromise on Net Neutrality
A few months ago, we received confirmation of what many of us had feared: incoming Federal Communications Commission Chair Ajit Pai announced his plans to eliminate the clear, enforceable protections for net neutrality that the Commission had implemented in 2015. - https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/08/dont-let-congress-compromise-net-neutrality

Throttling on Mobile Networks Is a Sign of Things to Come, Unless We Save Net Neutrality Now - https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/07/throttling-mobile-networks-sign-things-come-unless-we-save-net-neutrality-now

1 Echelon Mockingbird — The Censorship Zone
2 Matt Pitman — Happy Net Neutrality Day!
3 Daily Tech News Show — DTNS 3071 - The Secret History of Net Neutrality
4 J Budz — Net Neutrality Mix
5 PRH Audio — The Internet of Us by Michael P. Lynch, read by Dan Woren
6 Things and Stuff Podcast — Ep. 4 Help! I'm stuck in internet traffic!

Loss of Net Neutrality = Corporate Media Bias, Censorship

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As concerns continue to be raised over the potetial threat to internet neutrality posed by Facebook's aggressive roll-out of its Internet.org platform, South African telecoms operator, Telkom is proving that the public's growing distrust of big tech firms is not unfounded.

Large tech firms seem only too happy to test limits of what is ethically acceptable in terms of violating personal privacy, while capitalising on the lack of consensus around what constitutes internet neutrality.

Little fuss has so far been made over Telkom's recent employment of tactics that would generally be associated with illicit hacking syndicates, following the telecoms giant being caught adding JavaScript to web pages of its ISP clients via a "man-in-the-middle attack".

In this week's discussion, Tefo Mohapi and I discuss this unsettling development. Given how we cannot seem to trust big tech interests to behave ethically by defending our right to privacy and security, is internet regulation the answer?

Could Telkom's recent behaviour be used to validate the need for the adoption of a regulatory framework like that proposed by South Africa's Film and Publication Board some months back-- the potential unconstitutionality of which was debated in Episode 8: Is This The Worst Censorship Law Ever?

Catch the biggest digital, tech and innovation news from across Africa:

--Find out which Ugandan serial entrepreneur has being appointed to replace Dell's Entrepreneur-in-Residence, Elizabeth Gore as the Chair of the UN Foundation's Global Entrepreneurs Council,

--Discover when Facebook will launch its shiny new Africa office and which big South African ad agency executive has been head-hunted to lead its come September 2015, and
 
--Learn how South African mobile subscribers will soon be able to buy airtime and data using Bitcoin.

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Adult film stars Alex Chance, Mercedes Carrera, and Nadia Styles explain the importance of net neutrality.

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Porn Stars Explain Net Neutrality

There Is A Way

John O’Nolan is the founder and head designer at Ghost, an open source, hackable platform for building and running online publications. Ghost is used to power blogs at NASA, Sky News, Elon Musk’s new Open AI initiative, and literally a million other online publications. The interesting thing about Ghost is that it’s run as a non-profit organization with only 10 full-time employees. All of Ghost’s code is open source and the company publishes its financials, including run rates and salaries, on its website.

In this conversation we discuss life on the road, tips and tricks for digital nomads, and how to keep a team in sync across time zones. We also discuss the founding of Ghost, and John’s ideas about the role of the designer CEO, and touch on women in tech, the best tools for virtual teams and a lot more.

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Why do you do? with John O'Nolan

"The heart can not heal what the eye can not see, not even in the Twilight Zone." - Rod Serling - Healer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjM52z-PV3s

"Imagine yourself a visitor to many worlds, drifting on the solar wind, a thousand voices singing in your memory. Now imagine you're this man, who can only guess at the wonders he might have known, wonders that exist for him now only as a riddle... from The Twilight Zone."  - Rod Serling - The Chameleon - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgX6VadRyx8

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Today’s the Day: Let's Save Net Neutrality
You might have noticed something unusual when you visited the EFF website today: our site was “blocked” unless you shelled out for “premium” Internet access. As part of the day of action to support net neutrality , we decided to imagine what might happen if FCC Chairman Ajit Pai caves to industry pressure and abandons the net neutrality rules the FCC adopted just two years ago. If you don’t want to live in that future, it’s time to take action
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/07/todays-day-lets-save-net-neutrality

"In the American police state, the price to be paid for speaking truth to power (also increasingly viewed as an act of treason) is surveillance, censorship, jail and ultimately death." - http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2016/april/25/censored-surveilled-watch-listed-and-jailed-the-absurdity-of-being-a-citizen-in-the-american-police-state/

The Right to Tell the Government to Go to Hell: Free Speech in an Age of Government Bullies, Corporate Censors and Compliant Citizens - https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/the_right_to_tell_the_government_to_go_to_hell_free_speech_in_an_age_o

How governments are using spyware to attack free speech - https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2015/08/how-governments-are-using-spyware-to-attack-free-speech/

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In this conversation, Andile Masuku asks PesaCheck.org Managing Editor, Eric Mugendi, to reflect on the unprecedented leveraging of digital technologies by leading actors in Kenya's controversial elections, and to factor in on how the country's emerging tech ecosystem is doing in the aftermath.

Quick (Tech) Chats

Kenyan post election reflections with PesaCheck.org Managing Editor Eric Mugendi

Back on the show for the first time since contributing his fair share of involuntary hot takes on Episode 109 entitled "Investor Bias Debate 2.0 + Should Africa Embrace Uberisation?" (http://bit.ly/investorbias) Tapsnapp Founder, Vije Vijendrenath assumes co-hosting duties in Musa Kalenga’s absence. Andile Masuku chats to him about the workarounds he's deployed to secure funding for two startups that he previously struggled to get investors to take seriously-- namely, www.tapsnapp.co and www.youbabyandi.com.

Then, joining Andile and Vije on the show for a deep dive into South Africa's mobility scene is Obakeng Morapeli Matlhoko, the Founder of AftaRobot-- South Africa's ambitious "Uber for minibus taxis". Obakeng shares trench insights into his company’s audacious attempt usher in a new paradigm for the country’s notoriously fragmented minibus taxi industry.

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African Tech Roundup

A Peek Under the Hood Of South Africa's Mobility Scene feat. Obakeng Morapeli Matlhoko

In this relaxed chat - taped on Wednesday, May 2nd, 2018 - Business Report (South Africa) Content Editor, Philippa Larkin and African Tech Roundup Executive Producer, Andile Masuku, chat about topical global issues impacting Africa's tech and innovation industry.

Listen in to hear how the conversation takes some unexpected twists and turns as Philippa and Andile discuss the continent's unfolding digital transformation journey.

Philippa Larkin and Andile Masuku's tech and innovation catch-up

This podcast is the first instalment of a two-part conversation Andile Masuku had with one of Zimbabwe’s most well-known and widely-respected business people, the economist turned banker, entrepreneur and investor, Dr Nigel Chanakira. 

Dr Chanakira is probably most famous for founding Kingdom Financial Holdings Limited in 1997, and for orchestrating that company’s much-publicized merger and demerger with the Meikles Africa group before eventually selling out to the Mauritius-based AfrAsia Holdings in 2013.

Prior to founding Kingdom Financial Holdings, Dr Chanakira spent long stints working for the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe and Bard Discount House. Over the years, he has sat on the boards of numerous leading companies and institutions, including Econet Wireless Holdings, Success Motivation Institute (Africa), the Christian Community Trust and Kingdom Meikles Africa.

Listen in to hear Dr Chanakira's fascinating personal and professional origin story. And heads up, this episode features an intriguing anecdote about role Dr Chanakira played in setting up Econet founder Strive Masiyiwa to become one of Zimbabwe’s most prolific entrepreneurial successes to date, and how he may have simultaneously made the poorest investment decision of his career.

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Investment Diaries With Dr Nigel Chanakira Part 1 - Worst investment decision in Zimbabwean history?

In this episode of the African Tech Roundup podcast, Andile Masuku and The Subtext’s Osarumen Osamuyi are joined by Iginio Gagliardone for a candid introductory chat about the budding Africa-China/China-Africa tech collaboration dynamic.

Iginio is an Associate Professor in Media Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand and an Associate Research Fellow in New Media and Human Rights in the Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy (PCMLP) at the University of Oxford. He is also the author of a new book called China, Africa and the Future of the Internet, which has taken him the better part of ten years to write.

This context-setting conversation covers a lot of ground. Some of the questions discussed include: 

1) Where big-money moves in tech and innovation sector are concerned, is there an Africa-China or China-Africa dynamic at play? [12:17]
2) How committed is China to promoting mutual commercial beneficiation in Africa? [15:51]
3) Is there substance to stereotype of “Everyone has a plan for Africa, except Africa”? [20:13]
4) Are there any “good guys” left, and if so, is China one of them? [25:02]
5) Is China’s influence in African “technopolitical” circles inducing a neo-Third World psyche? [30:23] 

The episode is chock-full of fascinating real-world anecdotes, provocative ideas for how things can and should be and even a lively lightning round near the end of the show which elicited reflex takes on Africa-China tech stories that have trended over the last short while.

To view resources referenced in this episode, visit https://www.africantechroundup.com/africa-china-tech-dynamics/

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Is The Africa-China/China-Africa Tech & Innovation Dynamic Win-win? feat. Iginio Gagliardone

Africa-focused technology, digital and innovation ecosystem insight and commentary.

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