<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><div><br></div><div><br></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div><div>On 4/12/17, 9:38 PM, "Mark Elkins" <<a href="mailto:mje@posix.co.za">mje@posix.co.za</a>> wrote:</div></div><div><br></div><blockquote id="MAC_OUTLOOK_ATTRIBUTION_BLOCKQUOTE" style="BORDER-LEFT: #b5c4df 5 solid; PADDING:0 0 0 5; MARGIN:0 0 0 5;"><div><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
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<p>Not really. The Policy is intended to affect the
people/departments/decision makers that are actually causing a
shutdown to happen.</p></div></div></blockquote></span><div>But governments serve the populace and decisions are made by individuals. What impact will this policy make on a head of state or internal security organ of a totalitarian country.?? Who makes a unilateral decision ??</div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><blockquote id="MAC_OUTLOOK_ATTRIBUTION_BLOCKQUOTE" style="BORDER-LEFT: #b5c4df 5 solid; PADDING:0 0 0 5; MARGIN:0 0 0 5;"><div><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"><p><br>
i.e. - not Universities, Hospitals, Businesses or Joe Public.<br>
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<p>If the Government were also to suddenly change (Arab Spring
style) then the ban would also presumably be immediately lifted.</p></div></div></blockquote></span><div>What right do we have to set the moral high ground ?? And who are we ?? </div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><blockquote id="MAC_OUTLOOK_ATTRIBUTION_BLOCKQUOTE" style="BORDER-LEFT: #b5c4df 5 solid; PADDING:0 0 0 5; MARGIN:0 0 0 5;"><div><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"><p><br>
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After all - what is the point of AFRINIC (whose fundamental role is
to promote Internet growth and penetration in Africa) servicing
governments who don't allow the people to have Internet service, or
who keep switching it off.</div></div></blockquote></span><div><br></div><div>There are many ways of preventing internet access to the masses, starting with affordability ?? High taxes on internet services, and failure to provide the conducive environment. Which condition will you choose ??</div><div><br></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><blockquote id="MAC_OUTLOOK_ATTRIBUTION_BLOCKQUOTE" style="BORDER-LEFT: #b5c4df 5 solid; PADDING:0 0 0 5; MARGIN:0 0 0 5;"><div><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"><br>
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ps. Can someone point me to an article or two that explains the
reason <b>why</b> the anglophones have been denied Internet in the
Cameroon.</div></div></blockquote></span><div><br></div><div> </div></body></html>