Govt raises red-flag against obscene online content
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- 12 Sep 2022
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The government has warned that it will take stern legal action against social media group administrators and individuals, who circulate indecent online content.
The warning comes after a lengthy monitoring carried out by the Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority (TCRA), which has established that some viewers of foreign paid online content (pay per view/video on demand) have been watching and distributing indecent content on social networks to members of the public.
Speaking to journalists in Dar es Salaam yesterday, the Minister for Information, Communication and Information Technology, Nape Nnauye said that the presence of such displeasing content from other parts of the world was polluting the minds of members of the public, especially children.
He was particularly dismayed with distribution of contents that promote homosexuality, lesbianism, pornographic and other explicit video clips, cultivating moral decay within the society.
“The government is not ready to turn its back while people receive various bad taste online content…such behaviour is plunging our future generations into the mess of immortality. We will not tolerate this at all,” avowed Minister Nape.
He said the government has come up with laws and regulations to prohibit obscene, indecent and profane content from being circulated, including holding social media group administrators and individuals accountable of any posted indecent content that is circulated.
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