nsane.forums Posted June 14, 2012 Share Posted June 14, 2012 The government of Ethiopia has banned the use of Skype and other similar VOIP services in that country. People who are found to be using VOIP services could get up to 15 years in jail. If you happen to use Skype in the country of Ethiopia, well ... don't. TechCrunch reports that a few weeks ago, the Ethiopian government passed a law that bans the use of Skype and any other VOIP service such as Google Talk in that part of the world. Not only that, but the story claims that the government could put people in jail for up to 15 years if they are caught using a VOIP service. There's no word as to how the government could enforce such a ban. The ban was actually put in place on May 24th but is only now being reported on in the media. The story points out that Ethiopia's leaders already have set up some very high restrictions as far as Internet connections in that country. There's just one ISP in Ethiopia, Ethio Telecom, but it is fully under the state's control. In addition, the government has also given itself the authority "to supervise and issue licenses to all privately owned companies that import equipment used for the communication of information." While the country has 84 million citizens, it is estimated by the Internet censorship watchdog OpenNet Initiative that just 700,000 of them have any kind of Internet access. View: Original Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
visualbuffs Posted June 15, 2012 Share Posted June 15, 2012 wtf!!! what country is this? paranoid Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T4C Fantasy Posted June 15, 2012 Share Posted June 15, 2012 im glad i live in america where i can skype watch porn use the pirate bay all at once and not expect anything to happen from the law. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonar Posted June 15, 2012 Share Posted June 15, 2012 Why would they block VOIP?My guess is skype allows free calls and they don't like it!!! LOLSo they block xbox live "chat" too in that country? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olexijl Posted June 15, 2012 Share Posted June 15, 2012 im glad i live in america where i can skype watch porn use the pirate bay all at once and not expect anything to happen from the law. You should expect this: https://torrentfreak...-piracy-110707/ Review: http://www.nsaneforu...__+six +warning PS: Besides, Skype is not safe either. See MegaUpload case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosticles Posted June 15, 2012 Share Posted June 15, 2012 Fucking retard law Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
demoneye Posted June 15, 2012 Share Posted June 15, 2012 all this third world country are got a fooken crazy leadership !!!! like in some countries in the middle east !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gamkutopolowk Posted June 15, 2012 Share Posted June 15, 2012 :wtf: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kunjar Posted June 15, 2012 Share Posted June 15, 2012 wtf!!! what country is this? paranoid The united states of Islam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jtmulc Posted June 16, 2012 Share Posted June 16, 2012 wtf!!! what country is this? paranoid The united states of Islam Ethiopia is 63% Christian, 34% Islam. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcs18 Posted June 16, 2012 Share Posted June 16, 2012 PS: Besides, Skype is not safe either. See MegaUpload case.Actually, neither is crossing the roads nor breathing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Lite Posted June 16, 2012 Administrator Share Posted June 16, 2012 The united states of IslamI could have sworn the topic title said "Ethiopia" and i cannot locate a country by this name also. So can you let everyone know why you made this comment? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcs18 Posted June 17, 2012 Share Posted June 17, 2012 Personally, it pains me whenever the people of any country are deprived and restricted - irrespective of race, caste creed & gender (it doesn't really matter.) :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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