Mugabe Unleashes Cyber Warfare Against Online Publications in Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe, how bad would it get? Four-figure inflation rate, dictatorship at its cruelest, now this:

AllAfrica:

ZANU PF has blacklisted 41 online publications, including websites for American-owned Cable News Network (CNN) and the United States Embassy in Harare, which it claims have launched a cyber war to promote a regime change agenda against President Robert Mugabe’s government, the Zimbabwe Independent can reveal.

Ethan Zuckerman the co-founder of Global Voices, writes:

Global Voices is one of the sources of “‘virulent propaganda’ to delegitimise ‘our just struggle against Anglo-Saxons’. He continues “It’s unclear whether Zimbabwe is actually blocking access to these sites at an ISP level - according to the Independent, which reported the story, “It was not immediately apparent what measures, if any, the party can take against offending websites.” In other words, a country that’s having a very hard time keeping its currency from collapsing likely doesn’t have a lot of free cash to pay for internet filtering technology.