[Community-Discuss] ICT Authority of Mauritius requests public comments on proposal to regulate Social Media

[Ish Sookun]

Hi Arthur,

On 22 February 2021 you tweeted [1] about a fruitful meeting between
AFRINIC and the ICT Authority of Mauritius on initiatives to leverage
Internet development in Mauritius.

I asked whether those initiatives would be made public and you replied
that they will be when finalized. Are those initiatives finalized yet?

The ICT Authority published a Consultation Paper [2] on proposed
amendments to regulate Social Media in Mauritius. Section 11.2 of the
paper provides details on the infrastructure that the regulator proposes
to set up in order to do a Man-In-The-Middle styled decryption of all
Facebook traffic in Mauritius.

This does not give the impression of leveraging Internet development in
Mauritius. On the contrary it sounds like restricting development.

Regards,

Ish Sookun

[1] https://twitter.com/carindaln/status/1363872993743679492
[2] https://www.icta.mu/docs/2021/Social_Media_Public_Consultation.pdf