Zambia: Sata Targets Blocking Facebook, Twitter

President Michael Sata's parallel intelligence system is moving to block social networks Facebook and Twitter after realising that stories on blocked websites, Zambian Watchdog and Zambia Reports, are now filtering through the two media for domestic consumption.

And the Xavier Chungu-led parallel intelligence is targeting a third internet based media channel, Crossfire Blogtalk Radio, for possible blocking after it continued airing guests critical of the Patriotic Front government.

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