The sad part is that they're crippling innovation and thus, in the long run, crippling their and all their people's economic prospect. The digital industry is a

The sad part is that they're crippling innovation and thus, in the long run, crippling their and all their people's economic prospect. The digital industry is a lot like the invention of the steam machine. Ethiopia will feel, in several years to come, what it would have been like for an early European country, to back out of the industrial revolution. Once again, politicians are trading the long term for short term monetary gains. (by gains I mean probably the ability to snoop on citicens and to make more money).