Webster Shamu, then Media, Information and Publicity minister -- at a function with a Chinese delegation -- rose to speak about internet regulation. Most people expected him to be progressive and to encourage its growth as a necessity for economic, political and social empowerment, but he disappointed.
Directing his speech to the deputy minister of the State Counsel Information Office of China, Qian Xiaoqian, Shamu spoke a familiar language to his counterpart whose country is infamous for internet censorship.
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