On Saturday 2nd October 2010, a friend called my attention to the news publication on Sahara Reporters’ (SR) website on the activities of some Internet activists known as 9ja Cyber activists who have hacked into the National Assembly site and posted a message stating their displeasure as to the state of affairs in the country.
On Saturday 2nd October 2010, a friend called my attention to the news publication on Sahara Reporters’ (SR) website on the activities of some Internet activists known as 9ja Cyber activists who have hacked into the National Assembly site and posted a message stating their displeasure as to the state of affairs in the country.
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The message posted by the hackers was of particular interest to me as the last two paragraphs of their note were my unedited words in an article “Don’t Ask, you wont be Told” that was published on SR a while ago (July 13 to be precise)
www.saharareporters.com/article/dont-ask-you-wont-be-told
and also on NEXT.
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Cyber terrorism is criminal. While I stand for good governance and out of the box strategies for insisting on it, I maintain my actions within the ambits of the law and do not subscribe to cyber terrorism of this kind. In any case, I expect that any one going to equity should do so with clean hands. A people demanding for a fairer deal, accusing the government of stealing should not be caught up in plagiarism and intellectual theft.
I wish to state categorically that I have nothing to do with the group neither was my consent sought and received before they reproduced my writing in their protest note. I must add in the same breath that while I am all for the use of new technology viz the internet, cell phones and social media to forge a new kind of activism towards making our nation better, I encourage all to do it in respect of local and international laws as well as within acceptable norms as intellectual theft of this kind certainly does not meet acceptable standards.
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Deepest Regards,
Sylva Nze Ifedigbo
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