Some people doubt the repeated assertion that I usually make here that the web is such an important and influential new medium that it has attracted the attention of the powerful and mighty in Kenya who pay good money to keep it under control, or so they think.
By the way, let me take this opportunity to inform them that this is an exercise in futility. Study and understand the Internet and you will quickly see what I am saying.
I want to give only one example to prove my point.
Remember when John Githongo released his famous Mwiraria Anglo Leasing tapes on the Internet? Those who visited the site saw a huge amount of comments but it was impossible to read them because some craft fellow who knew exactly what they were doing had obtained the lengthiest most boring government report and was repeatedly posting it as a comment thus effectively disabling the comments system. Had Githongo been just a little more web savvy, he would simply have moderated his comments and it would have instantly solved the problem.
This incident is clear evidence of the kind of mostly pro-government paid hands who keep a very close eye on the net and especially sites frequented by Kenyans. They then cause plenty of mischief. Many times it is difficult to differentiate them from genuine critics and it is for this reason that I would like to appeal to our genuine critics not to feel offended or think that my attacks are targeted at them. But this shows you clearly that the more constructive your criticism and the more you avoid abusive language, the easier it will be to tell you apart from the "moles."
Some people think that because of the relative few Kenyans who have access to the web, then this medium is ineffective and has no influence whatsoever. I would not like to go into an argument over this. All I will say at this point is that let us wait for the general elections and you will see what will happen.
But perhaps to give you just to give you an idea, this blog has very high readership from influential journalists and they do not have to agree with everything we say here to be influenced and to thus influence the greater public at large. Then there is the fact that all ideas are planted as single seeds and hen quickly spread if they are credible and their time has come. I have already seen many good seeds planted here blooming out there in the wider Kenya of today.
Luckily this is very okay because contrary to what many people believe, this blog holds no brief for any powerful forces, our client doesn't even pay us a cent. Our client (if you insist that we must have one) is of course the ordinary, downtrodden, suffering, voiceless Kenyan currently facing a bleak hopeless future unless we can sort out our politics in Kenya.
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