"Ethiopia’s prime minister says that if deadly unrest in the country continues with online incitement, internet in the country could be cut off “forever.”"
this is totally absurd (!), the only good thing about this sentence is that one would imagine that Ethiopian government is not able to control the content of information exchanged (which is a very good thing, no doubt), even if there is only one telephone company (Ethiotel) that has monopoly over the internet.
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"Ethiopia’s prime minister says that if deadly unrest in the country continues with online incitement, internet in the country could be cut off “forever.”"
this is totally absurd (!), the only good thing about this sentence is that one would imagine that Ethiopian government is not able to control the content of information exchanged (which is a very good thing, no doubt), even if there is only one telephone company (Ethiotel) that has monopoly over the internet.
we had a talk tonight with some IT Iot experts today, they are shocked by this statement, too.
They wonder how does it fit with announcements like this one https://www.ethiotelecom.et/rfp-ext-for-iptv-iot-lbs/
and Ethiotelecom is the sole and state-owned telecom service provider in Ethiopia