On the first social thought I thought M7 must be a mad frustrated old man milking the young lads and lasses off their wealth

After reading his aim I can now tell they should start the SMtax in Kenya as well and keep our funds in Kenya than on those Facebook billionaires, those twitterags, those yahoobags, those instagrammers, those Vodafoneirs etc and develop our economy.

In fact make it 5% in Kenya as we are far much ahead and smarter than UGs

Why has Rotich not seen this?

Who support M7 like me to tell Parliament to have Thinking people than think tanks?

Bravo M7 for seeing how those PIGs get wealth out from our pockets.

https://www.businessdailyafrica....647636-t7ecis/index.html

Re-read it again with open mind.
You have lost a lot because of a corrupted head in the past.
Re-read Bro,

Crypto currency is taking root too with Binance setting shop. They probably lowered tax to compete against WeChat/Alibaba and our MPesa

@alma1 I also don't understand how they don't get that taxing social media that is not charged around the world is retrogressive. It would take us back to the stone ages. What exactly is wrong with gossip? Gossip is not an invention of social media. The dictator is afraid of open message sharing.

I am sorry - I don't agree! First of all - the fact that government can just decide to place a tax on something so abitrary is rather off with me. You cannot tax what is not paid for and what is not sold! if my mother gives me food - you cannot abtrarilly come up with a tax on it. Tax on trade - yes! let them tax where someone is buying or selling or property is changing hands. but taxes for taxes sake - no! I saw some idiots deciding to tax selfies taking... like what? what is wrong with people?

Secondly, people always need to ask themselves... what is the "greater good"... the "common good"... the single outcome we are seeking for and thus we are directing our efforts towards. This is normally informed by what ideology we as a country are following. in my opinion our "greater good" should not be to raise funds for government! no... it's to maximize individual quality of life.

Finally, of course what these lawyers don't know (because it's always lawyers that come up with such rent seeking ideas) is that technology does not really follow them and pretty soon people will be doing something totally different to circumvent them. wait and see.

You can segment. It's how China and a few other countries regulate the use of internet. Same way some misguided employers disable or regulate FB for employees to 'increase' employee production.

Africans never start anything before the white and the Indians exhaust it.

If this was introduced by Britain we would just jump in.

Britain is a beneficiary as they own Vodafone that milk our men and women.

The USA govt owns most of the social media and so we run and pay them without any tax going back to us but they receive wholesome as we again run to borrow from them

We tend to be too clever doing nothing (Professor Obel explained the weakness of being African)

We want to speak more English more than the English people but it does not help us as we do not still understand it.

Just because M7 started it (and he is not first one as those owners pay taxes they import from foolish countries) he skim him and call him names.

Time to remember why we were called Niggers.!!!

hey.let me explain how this whole website blocking is done.frat of all a big middle finger to Museveni and his backward thinking.now when a government want to block websites all it says to the internet service providers in the country is to block for instance facebook.on the internet providers end they will for instance for facebook look at all the ip blocks that have been awarded to facebook under the different asn numbers they have and block those ip blocks from going through their network (the isp's network).so when you try to access the blocked website you get redirected to a message saying its blocked.But in this day and age its futile to block websites.he's how my fellow Ugandans can bypass the is blockade

1.Get a vpn.this is obvious.either paid or free they can go for a free vpn like www.vpngate.net or a paid one like https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/

2. they access the blocked website through the tor browser by downloading the browser here https://www.torproject.o...ects/torbrowser.html.en

3. or they can be adventurous and set up their own vpn buy getting a vps from digital ocean for instance and then installing openvpn on it. https://m.do.co/c/20c173f86910

4. or if the blockages is toooo aggressive like in china then they can use shadowsocksr https://shadowsocks.org/

all in all its very futile to lock social media

0.5% of What? What if you use office Internet? Or your company had a "free" whatsapp and facebook plan. What if you use Facebook once a month. Is the 0.5% still applicable? The problem is that people don't understand business models. Totally... how does Facebook make money from you? How does Google make money from you? Why punish the ISP and user but not the company making money?

Hii maneno mimi bado elewa.

1. If I use my FB app, using Safaricon data, is there any financial transaction that takes place between Safaricon and FB? And if there is, who pays who, and for what?

2. Is there any money that leaves our economy courtesy of FB, other than the repatriated Safcon (vodafone) data profits?

3. FB does free marketing in our territory, and makes money via adverts. Isn't it just a matter of time before they start paying taxes to host countries?

Someone elaborate.

Maybe, just maybe, Uganda will be the trigger!