Zimbabwean President, Robert Mugabe, has created a ministry to punish
“rats” who make use of the cyberspace to attack his government.
Appointed as head of this new Cyber Security, Threat Detection, and
Mitigation ministry is Patrick Chinamasa who is a former Finance
minister.
Zimbabweans have joked about the development, claiming Chinamasa’s
appointment makes him the “minister of WhatsApp and Facebook”.
However, Chinamasa’s first job, it seems, is to get rid of, or
regulate the use of Whatsapp and Facebook, raising serious concerns over
freedom of expression, access to information and a clampdown on social
media messaging.
Zimbabwe actually did, in fact, issue new rules on using WhatsApp, in
the country. The rules order groups to be registered and for the
administrator of the group to have government level clearance.
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