South African Government Issues Plans To Censor Internet

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday March 10, 2015 @04:10PM from the not-learning-from-the-mistakes-of-others dept.

An anonymous reader writes: The South African department of communications is sitting on a draft paper drawn up by the local Film & Publication Board, which proposes strict regulation of the internet within in the country in order to bring online publishing inline with that of DVD, video and terrestrial TV ratings. The proposals are being called censorship and unconstitutional, and include plans to criminalize anyone who publishes material online — including uploading videos to YouTube — who doesn't pay a licence and submit to vetting by FPB agents.

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Just send your cat videos. by marka63 · 2015-03-10 18:44 · Score: 4, Interesting

The way to defeat stupid laws like this is for everyone to actually send everything they intend to upload to the ratings board then to complain when you don't get a rating back in a timely manner to their representative.