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    "id": 1477285,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1477285/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Wajir North, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Ibrahim Saney",
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    "content": "There has been serious moral decadence. Our sisters are being abused left, right and centre. My senior Hon. Odhiambo-Mabona has been complaining just now about her contribution going viral across the world. How do we manage such scenarios? Why should our female folk be the target of bad publicity? Why can we not use the technology in a very objective and constructive way? Authenticity of information is questionable today. Ninety-nine per cent of the information on social media is false. What will Kenyans consume? The consumers are in a very perilous position. What should they consume? We are at a time when we should regulate what is right and stop what is wrong. This correlates with the Computer Misuse and Cybercrimes Act. We must wake up from the deep slumber and make sure that whatever goes around on the internet is authentic, dependable and verifiable. One other big risk is that we are going through intellectual degradation. Students cannot get the spelling of a simple word today until they go to mwalimu Google. We have lost that capacity. Making a simple sentence structure is a problem, even for university graduates. Why? Because of over-dependence on technology. In as much as technologies are welcome – we cannot do without them – we must ameliorate the impact of these technologies on human capital. Human capital is now in form of robots. We are no longer natural. We are becoming machines dependent on gadgets. We are losing our endowed capacity. In my opinion, technology must complement, not kill that which is endowed. I do not want to take more time because my colleagues also want to contribute to the debate. I appreciate this Bill. I also accept and support it. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker."
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