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Making a Skype call in Ethiopia comes with jail time

article published on 16 June, 2012

Thanks to new legislation passed by the government, using Skype in Ethiopia can come with a 15-year jail sentence. The legislation actually criminalizes the use of VoIP in the country, and that includes notable services like Skype and Google Voice. In the nation, all citizen's communications are monitored by authorities, but VoIP was the exception. Ethio Teleco is the only communications ... [ read the full article ]

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Arjun00
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_ 		16. June 2012 @ 18:37 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
they must be on the verge of attracting the amish population.
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_ 		16. June 2012 @ 21:45 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Time to visit Ethiopia and test this new law
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i1der
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_ 		16. June 2012 @ 21:56 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
less then 1% of Ethiopia will be affected. Only if they could feed their people instead.
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Semperfipal
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_ 		16. June 2012 @ 22:53 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Are they paranoid about a revolution? They should be laws like this.
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_ 		17. June 2012 @ 00:17 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
With all the MAFIA crying about piracy and lobbying the sleazy politicians, not long before we get a taste of same kind of freedom...or lack of it.
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tolla
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_ 		17. June 2012 @ 05:56 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
The Ethiopian government is the worst dictatorial regime in East Africa, the government did worst things than blocking Skype but as far as Meles Zenawi is a friend of America its okay let him terrorized his own people what unfair world we are living??? http://ecadforum.com
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JST1946
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_ 		17. June 2012 @ 23:28 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Well I guess I can scratch Ethiopia from my bucket list.
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SoulGLOW
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Originally posted by JST1946:
 Well I guess I can scratch Ethiopia from my bucket list.
they would just steal your bucket
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Yeah I'm glad you reminded me.Thanks a lot.
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