Lebanon Begins Enforcing VoIP Ban. Entrepreneurs And Businesses Are Furious. You Should Be Too.

Imad Atallah:

Blocking VoIP in the 21st century is similar to blocking television broadcasts in the 1980s. You have every right to be outraged.

Rampant political corruption and bad governance in Lebanon notwithstanding, this telecoms aggression fulfills the national motto of serving the plutocracy of wealth and power at the expense of average citizens and small business owners. Blocking VoIP to safeguard state revenue from international calls amounts to a financial transfer from consumers directly to the government and the few, never audited, telecoms monopolists the government controls.