Interesting ;

http://www.zimobserver.com/newsdetai...article_id=210

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In a country with unemployment of over 70 percent, satellite television is
available only to the wealthy few.

Radio broadcasts from the British Broadcasting Corporation, Voice of America
and particularly the British-based SW Radio Africa, run by exiled Zimbabweans,
appear to be growing in popularity - but only among those with short wave
receivers.

Until recently, cyberspace offered some respite from the state's media
offerings.

However, it has now become the latest target of the government's censorship
drive. The state telecommunications monopoly, TelOne, has asked internet
service providers (ISPs) to sign commercial contracts which ask them to spy on
the e-mails of their clients for � �objectionable, obscene (and)
unauthorized� content.

ISPs are treading cautiously. �We are discussing with TelOne,� says the
Chairman of the Zimbabwe Internet Service Providers Association, Shadreck
Nkala. �At the moment we haven't reached a stage of signing (the
contract).�



Nonetheless, the opposition Movement for Democratic Change says its weekly
information bulletins - sent by e-mail - are already being blocked, because the
government seems to have acquired the technology to do so, possibly from China.

�We have reason to believe that our e-mail communication is being tempered
with,� says party official Nkanyiso Maqeda.

Instead of MDC e-mails, subscribers and supporters are receiving blank messages
telling them that selected mails have been barred for carrying �sensitive
information.� (END/2004)


Source: IPS - Inter Press Service Wilson Johwa