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The campaign to subvert Africa's internet registry
- TimorousBestie 1y agoA horrid state of affairs. African countries have a right to develop their own Internet infrastructure without foreign meddling.
- derelicta 1y agoHonestly, this warrants some complaint to the CPC.
- immibis 1y agoThe Communist Party of China? Why would they punish someone for bringing more wealth to China?
- bilbo0s 1y agoBecause the resources and wealth are not going to China. He's reselling them to SE Asia and North America with the vast majority being routed from the US or Hong Kong. Especially right now, I'd imagine the CPC would be very interested in knowing about any Chinese citizens conspiring illegally to enrich companies in the US. That fact alone pretty much guarantees this guy gets F'ed over if the CPC starts to hear too much about what he's up to. Now I think about it, that's probably the reason he's so desperate to suppress any media coverage of the entire scam. He knows if the dictators back in China get wind of it, the gig is up. Probably also some less than savory people out of Hong Kong that would be anxious to, um, "cut out any loose ends" so to speak. Anyone, like the guy in this article for instance, that might inform their government as to the identity of his co-conspirators.
- derelicta 1y agoBecause he acts like a thief??
- immibis 1y agoThis sort of thing is happening to a huge number of organizations all around the world in all fields of expertise. Once power games replace the concept of competence, the collapse of a civilization is inevitable - and that has already happened.
- wizzwizz4 1y agoIt is often possible to simply ignore the power games. No need to depose them if they're rulers of nothing.
- immibis 1y agoThis is a good plan when switching away is trivial. When they're in charge of something like a supermarket and they have sufficient competition. If the supermarket manager's an asshole, shop across the street and let it fail. It doesn't work when they're singular entities. If the president is a massive asshole your options are to flee the country, lick his asshole, get permanently imprisoned, or treat it like a guerilla civil war and live in hiding. (As a consequence we invented democracy, which is supposed to prevent those people becoming president. But the 0days in democracy are not being patched.)
- grafmax 1y agoThe reason for democracy’s failure is the concentration of power that comes from wealth inequality. This lets a minority use their money to disproportionately influence the democratic process in their favor.
- mschuster91 1y agoHot take, but that's why I'm fed up with "anti-colonial" activists who act like it's time to just drop our responsibilities on the former colonies and now "third world" countries. It has been shown many times before, with this shitshow being the latest example, that most "third world" countries simply do not have a legal system in place that can cope with rich Western or new-rich Asian exploiteers. In turn, that means that yes, Western countries need to step in on all levels until these countries have robust enough systems to stand up for their interests (and not those of rich "businessmen" and scammers) on their own!
- saagarjha 1y agoAnti-colonial people will typically ask for reparations to solve exactly this problem. Coming in, ruining a country, and then bailing is exactly what they take issue with.
- mschuster91 1y ago> Coming in, ruining a country, and then bailing is exactly what they take issue with. I proposed doing exactly the counter: coming in and staying until the situation is tenable. > Anti-colonial people will typically ask for reparations to solve exactly this problem. Money isn't everything. When the judiciary is compromised and/or incompetent, no amount of money can prevent a situation like the one described here.
- saagarjha 1y agoYes, my point is that they would agree with you
- mmooss 1y ago> drop our responsibilities on the former colonies The West wasn't responsible, but rapacious. The colonialists are the "rich Western or new-rich Asian exploiteers", and always have been. That's who the anti-colonialists have pushed back against. > now "third world" countries Nobody in that field has used that word in a long time. Africa - an enormous place that can't be described in one way, has many countries doing very well. > Western countries need to step in That should be up to the people in those countries, not you or me or some powerful Westerner. Usually it doesn't work out well for their interests - the colonial powers use the countries for their interests.
- Symbiote 1y agoWhy does Africa only have 5% IPv6 adoption? With more, newer networks I expected it to be higher.
- toast0 1y agoAfrinic still has quite a lot of IPv4 addresses available. Networks in other places generally haven't really pushed IPv6 until IPv4 addresses get hard to find.
- betaby 1y agoSimple answer - Huawei. I know that may sounds controversial, but Huawei employees allocated to manage African networks have zero knowledge of IPv6. One would think they are trained in China and should know IPv6, but in practice that's not the case.
- hnuser123456 1y agoI worked for a registry for a while, and we'd have people who didn't really understand how any of this works making huge offers for huge chunks of IPv4. It happened more than once that I explained that IPv6 also exists, also can identify your computers on the internet, and is essentially free and unlimited, but you'll need your engineers to learn it.
- GuinansEyebrows 1y agoIP profiteers deserve the same hell as domain squatters and bad* landlords * s/bad//g if you're feeling spicy
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- xhkkffbf 1y agoThe main link is 404ed now. Any other sources?
- KomradeKeeks 1y agohttps://archive.is/bcSDY https://archive.is/bcSDY
- Havoc 1y agohttps://web.archive.org/web/20250420211418/https://www.capeindependent.com/article/the-campaign-to-subvert-africas-internet-registry https://web.archive.org/web/20250420211418/https://www.capei...
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- keysersoze33 1y agoSadly, the original link now returns a 404: https://archive.is/bcSDY https://archive.is/bcSDY