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"content": "We want to request county governments, although I have not seen it in this Bill - I hope Sen. Eddy will look into this - let us allow the young people to record the short videos across the country and even pictures without necessarily being subjected to police harassment or enforcement officers from counties. I want to request the young people to shoot these videos. They should record to educate, entertain, encourage and bring the unity of the country. We do not want this to be used as an avenue to incite and destroy the social fabric of our nation. We also want to discourage the content that might not be palatable, like pornography issues. Madam Temporary Speaker, this county is funny. You say something on the Floor of the House, and if somebody somewhere is uncomfortable, they just share your number and say, ‘inject.’ The Data Commissioner of Data Protection Commission must protect Kenyans. Severally, I have been a victim of that. The people who send the messages will use WhatsApp and they will SMS you very bad insulting messages. I want to challenge the Data Commissioner and Data Protection Commission. We have the Bill in place. They must protect us and Kenyans. Somebody cannot wake up and share the number of Sen. Omogeni in Twitter or X and say ‘inject.’ They send you messages the whole night. Consequently, your spouse might think you are the one doing it, but somebody is harassing you somewhere. They are stalking you. I support the Government that all social media like Meta, X or Twitter, TikTok, among others establish their physical offices in Nairobi or in Kenya, so that accountability and transparency can be upheld. By the fact that on X accounts, somebody posts and says, “Speaker Mumma, this is her number, inject,” what are they injecting? In fact, they are injecting the wrong thing. They are not even sending you sensible things. They are even sending Kshs1 bob to your M-Pesa line, which borders harassment. We have moved from physically harassment to harassment through the technology on our phones. Therefore, I request that young people, as they use this forum, to bring order. I did not see the offences, Sen. Eddy. I hope one of the offences is that this scheme should self-regulate and ensure young people do not abuse this space. We want this space even as technology grows. This is a digital and information era, but let us use it for the betterment of this country. I celebrate YouTubers. They are ‘eating’ well. People like Njugush, Crazy Kennar, Flaqo and Mungai Eve. I do not know whether she broke up with the boyfriend, and the YouTube account died. There is also Butita and Obinna. Therefore, these are young people. I know when I say this, my generation will understand what I mean. I know our Clerk Assistant Kavata is aware of this because she is in our generation, therefore, she should be able to understand."
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