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June 18, 2012

Skype or Jail for 15 years (if you live in Ethiopia) take your pick!!

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Written by: Moksh Mridul
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If censorship in the form or SOPA and CISPA weren’t enough, using Skype and/or GTalk just got a whole lot more complicated for Ethiopians.

Personally, its quite sad that all the governments want to play the “National Security” card to get their way. I wouldn’t be shocked to know if there was an ulterior motive behind this (Read: conspiracy theories).

…New legislation passed in May has criminalized the use of Voice-over-Internet-Protocol (VoIP) services that offer audio and video related communications, including Skype or Google Voice…

 

Source : PCMag