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President Michael Sata to clamp down on internet bullies targeting women

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President Michael Sata
President Michael Sata

President Michael Sata has warned that his government will start regulating online media in an effort to put a stop to the habit of insulting women on the internet.

President Sata said his government is concerned that some online users are in the habit of targeting insults on women.

“There is a plague at the moment with internet abuse aimed very largely at women. There is a lot of bullying, slandering and insulting on certain social media sites. It’s a problem worldwide but in Zambia we also have this problem,” President said.

“The government will do everything it can to regulate this out of existence.”

President Sata was speaking in Lusaka today in a speech ready by Vice President Guy Scott during the commemoration of this year’s International Women’s Day under the theme, the gender agenda: gaining momentum.

He said the PF government is also concerned at the rate of gender based violence targeted at women.

“Hardly a day passes without reports of rape, defilement, spouse battering and gruesome killings of women, this trend is unacceptable and cannot be allowed to continue.”

“As government, we are making all efforts to combat the scourge through enhancing security, establishment of one stop centre across the country and engagement of the media to create more awareness and encourage responsible messages aimed at behaviour change,” he said.

President Sata also stated that another emerging issue among women in the prevalence of breast and cervical cancer which has increased tremendously in recent years.

“My government is determined to address the situation and will continue to focus on preventive and control measures by scaling up of awareness raising activities and provision of breast and cervical cancer screening services across the country.”

“In this regard, I urge you all to take voluntary cancer screening seriously,” President Sata said.

At the same event, NGOCC Vice Chairperson Mary Mulenga commended the PF government for ratifying the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women but called for a fast track approach to domesticating the convention.

Mrs. Mulenga also called on government to domesticate the SADC and AU gender protocols in order to advance the status of women in Zambia.

She reiterated the demands by the women’s movement for the PF government to adopt the next constitution through a referendum.

“As a matter of urgency, we urge this government to set up the Referendum Committee to start preparatory work towards the referendum, we also want to appeal to government to make defilement non bailable offence and increase sentencing powers of the Magistrate.”

The event was shunned by women from the key opposition parties.

101 COMMENTS

    • Start with Ba Jean Kapata, Masebo and ka Kabimba. They never defended mwana Ba Kaingu.
      Chimbi nkachuma- chimbi nkachuma left-right pamyona!

    • I hope the president is thinking of me as well, I have been ridiculously bullied on here for no reason at all
      Mr president if you are reading this I just want to tell you how gratified, humbled and excited on the possibilities of catching the culprits

      I am starting to slowly losing grip and I am being victimized for being good at what I do, ie analyzing articles fair and square and with an impartial mind on top of using the educations I have worked on to be a better person.
      I think my being bullied will scare Lusakatimes trolls and they will start respecting me
      Thanks Mr president .

    • Sorry Mushota…the president is talking about learned women with high intergrity .Not sure whether this covers you…..

    • I wish the president read that speech himself, where is he???

      @ Mushota, wow you have articulated yourself very well today. The thing is Your so called ‘educated thoughts’ rub people the wrong way sometimes.
      Since they can not get a hold of you to shake you around till you are all better, they just try to correct not bully you . Otherwise mwandi don’t stop posting your comments here, you are also entitled to your own opinion no matter how irritating it might be. 😉

    • As for the acting chief justice, she asked for it. I have no sympathy for her. She doesn’t want to appoint a tribunal on masebo and she expects people to start smiling at her?? No way

    • @ Mushota wonder which Univesrsity wud be ready to give you a PHD with your “Educations” I’ts Education. Go back to primary school or rather Early learning education I’m sure the Teachers will educate you over nouns, pro nouns, verbs, etc.

  1. I think it will be hard to pull off but agree with the sentiment. Unfortunately we live in an online world some think it is okay to even sell tee shirts on Amazon encouraging the rape and abuse of women. Tis unfortunate that female readership is dismissed by those who use offensive words with no thought to the decent females that may or may not exist in our lives. I’ve said it before, LT, you replace idi0t but not p…. c…. b…. Etc. so you don’t need Sata to bully you all. Common decency. Let him focus on other issues.

  2. The women whom our Republican President cherishes to protect from attacks on internet media are very few and dear to his heart. The women who enjoy Presidential protection include Ms. Suba and her niece IG Libongani, Acting Chief Justice Lombe Chibesakunda, Police Commissioner Katanga, the ACC Director, Masebo, Catherine Namugala and to a lesser extent Dr. Kaseba. This Presidential outburst is quite revealing indeed.

    • You are right. Lets call a spade a spade. Sata should be the last person to talk about the dignity of women. I say so because a person who has respect for women cannot go on rampage fathering children all over the country. A few scars on his wife’s face is clear testimony of the man’s appetite for wife battering. Perhaps that is the reason why he gave the speech to Guy Scot because he knows he is the worst culprit.

  3. To be black is a big problem and sometimes its means be stupid!,, just because muzungu (white) Mrs scot complaints then the whole of the president acts leaving his mass of black “children“ are without mealie meal and no action from the presidency,

  4. Boss you are living out Bwijifumu who are highly culpable as the major culprits, followed by ZWD and political cadres across the board.

    But guys lets respect our aunties sisters and mothers and grand-moms. There is some very un Zambian regarding physical , verbal and electronic travesties against women………..

    Women of Zambia, we love you and please take care! Wishing you a blessed international Women’s Day! lelo Not kumwamaningi naimwe shaaa……

    • Only fools won’t understand what he is trying here, he just want to create a gender issue here,to bring more confusion, and now he is entering your houses subtle if you know what I mean. He brought up the tribe issue now Gender am sorry Mr. President I won’t let you fool me. And I want to say learn to differential, insulting or ironically made statements, some of the comments called insults are not insults and sometimes insults are the only language certain fools understand and through the insults you can see how helpless and disappointed over your government THOSE INSULTS ARE A SIGN THAT PEOPLE ARE CRYING FOR HELP TO BE HEAD

  5. Instead of saying something progressive, he comes up with intimidation, threats, shouting… And how on earth will protect women on internet?
    Protect Ba auntie Kaseba first by changing your behavior, she get undressed on internet because of your Ukwash character.

    • I thought you would take aside politics and just commend him on this one, have you ever read the insults that are lashed out at women on Z Mumbwa, Tumfweko etc? some times we should look beyond the picture and appreciate the invisible message behind that Art, we would be so much better than we are today.

  6. Regulating the internet simply means that somebody will be watching over you, watching everything you do. Sata saying that its to protect the Women is just a cover up. There is more to it. Think about this; How do you think they are going to filter the web and know whether you are insulting women or not? its only through analyzing everything you do.

  7. Now now I knew it! I knew why the ‘Post’ published that editorial yesterday. It was to signal the coming of a draconian piece of legislation to clamp down on independent views. Sakeni in fact fired the warning shots when he talked about the need to stop insulting the President on the internet a few weeks ago. Now the pieces of the jigsaw puzzle are in place. This is also a confirmation of the tripartite “siamese twining” theory between Bwinjimfumu, Justice Ministry & State House and OH!… the DPP. Their entry point is “insults against women” but we know the real motive. Sad, very Sad indeed.

  8. Look who’s talking! Just over a week ago during a bye election campaign a well known bully described the women of Mpongwe as ifinkubala. I suggest this bully be sorted out first before we go any further.

    • “ifinkubala” what’s the English, its not a joke am seriously asking because I DON’T speak local languages of Zambia well. Thanks in advance

      Ps: Ukwa stands for what please?

    • IFINKUBALA = CATERPILLAR

      UKWA = A VILLAGER WHO GOES TO LONDON WITH PLAN – LIKE A HYENA WITH NO PLAN IN THE JUNGLE HEHEHEHE

    • IFINKUBALA = CATERPILLAR

      UKWA = A VILLAGER WHO GOES TO LONDON WITH NO PLAN – LIKE A HYENA WITH NO PLAN IN THE JUNGLE HEHEHEHE

  9. Ba Sata I hope you remember what you called our women during your campaigns in the just ended Mpongwe parliamentary by-election.

  10. this is an idea from mmembe so that we buy kama his finished paper(pf paper) whose sales have kept on going down.never!! Why didn’t mmd thought of that evil?

    • yes mmembe is not imuned,but zed stil has high levels of internet illiterecy.the only reason mmembes sales are going down is because he has sided with the minority.so people who rather buy daily nation and daily mail.furthermore,mmembe has personalised his journalism as oposed to profesionalism.

  11. I guess they are talking about Masebo because she is the one people like to call a sperm bank smelly whore on watchdog. I don’t think it’s right cos what if she is not a whore? In any case by men relieving themselves in Masebo means these hundreds of men are to blame as well for turning into a sperm latrine if we are to believe those who confess to doing so at zwd. I think da govt should concentrate on maize meal instead of sending Bob Sichinga to lie about mealling capacity. Is it only this year that this capacity is impaired? Ts about maker ting interference, arbitrary minimum wage and many other policies.

  12. He was not even present! His speeches are always read for him. This is the sort of thing that fuels rumours and undermines the respect that the president should enjoy. State house should be providing truthful explanations as to why sata is not appearing in public, not letting people guess on their own. The levels of incompetence in this govt have never been experienced anywhere on this earth since Jesus rose from the dead. It’s shocking what Zambians can tolerate….or is it the high levels of illiteracy and general low IQ?

  13. Easier said than done. How is he going to do it? Remember the time when somebody started the rumour that Ukwa had died? They reportedly asked our ignorant and technologically challenged police to investigate. Anyway most servers will just be moved outside the country and hence out of jurisdiction. I don’t condone insults on the blog but I hate censorship more, especially by semi-illiterate politicians.

    • But the service provider giving you that link has to remain in Zambia. All the legislation will do is to compel them to filter out traffic headed to the offending sites. In China, it requires some significant effort to effectively access social sites like gmail, facebook, youtube, etc because the service providers are compelled to apply filters. And the security agencies monitor every bit of traffic.

    • I agree with you. Respect is important. What I am not sure is the means being proposed for achieving this. Isn’t this a huge cost for the country for the benefits that will accrue to the nation? It would be better to dialogue and create synegies with civil society and church to work together & teach our people the values of being good mannered.

  14. It will be a very good move its just too much of insults. We should respect other people’s contributions. Disagree if you want to but don’t insult anyone.

  15. So Mr President is confessing indirectly to the nation that he secretly reads our comments on these blogs. Do the right thing and you’ll get positive feedback. You can not oppress the people like you used to in the UNIP days. How do you intend to shut down sites criticising you outside your jurisdiction? Have you no shame to use women as justification to silence those that are critical of your strange ways of running our country? Your PF post has become useless at reporting and now they are pressing you to shut down their competition. Zambia is bigger than all of us!

  16. chi colour cobe Satana,nway balikuputula ichi colour satana nama balls .castrated bull as told by Cheeeera.Pipo forget easily so CNP has forgotten wen he was a minister local govt how he used to insult secretaries .As long as Masebo,Namugala continue bitching will be insulting them from all corners plus Masumba,Kabimba,Meembe And his lover Nchito

  17. Only fools won’t understand what he is trying here, he just want to create a gender issue here,to bring more confusion, and now he is entering your houses subtle if you know what I mean. He brought up the tribe issue now Gender am sorry Mr. President I won’t let you fool me. And I want to say learn to differential, insulting or ironically made statements, some of the comments called insults are not insults and sometimes insults are the only language certain fools understand and through the insults you can see how helpless and disappointed over your government THOSE INSULTS ARE A SIGN THAT PEOPLE ARE CRYING FOR HELP TO BE HEAD

  18. Of-course ba presdo we know about your little room at Police service hq for monitoring all gateways in Zambia

  19. But you Zambians are just something. You mean the insult you spit from your stinking mouths are sweet? What a lost generation which has turned to insults as a way of expressing ideas. What do you gain in insulting your sisters, mothers, fathers and friends? How I pray that those insults you pour on your friends’ fathers and mothers are poured on your mother or father. Shame on you all who insult. Shaaaaa.

    Peace and Prosperity to Mother Zambia.

  20. Today is International Women’s Day. The least we can do is begin to observe some decency in our blogging not only towards the women folk but also to each other. The tendency to stray from the subject matter and caricature bloggers in ridiculous and insulting ways is something that would be a good idea to refrain from first. Government intervention will be quite a tightrope to walk but I think as bloggers we can do this ourselves…

  21. Apart from appointing deputy ministers and swearing them in and by election campaigning what does this President Sata do from 9am to 5pm? Does the man really know what is happening in the country?

  22. Frankly first deal with tangible things like wife beaters as ministers of defence, before you deal with “perceptions” of what is an insult on the internet – GET REAL!!! As a woman i would feel sooo much more protected if you did that

  23. THIS IS ANOTHER MISSED OPPORTUNITY FOR OUR HEAD OF STATE TO STATE THE VISION HE HAS FOR THEM.
    THE COUNTRY HAS EXPERIENCED BRUTAL MURDER OF WOMEN,OUR WOMEN ARE THE BIGGEST STREET VENDORS IN ZAMBIA AND MOST F THEM ARE HOMELESS.
    MR PRESEDENT HOW MANY WOMEN ARE INSULTED APART FROM MASEBO,NAMUGALA,SUBA,LOMBANI AND THE FEW OF LOW CALIBER?
    I WOULD HAVE LOKED TO HEAR HOW WOMEN WILL BE EMPOWERED ECONOMICAL AND SOCIALLY RATHER THAN YOU VISIONLESS SPEECH.
    IS THIS SATA I KNEW 10 YEARS AGO WHO IS ALWAYS CONFINED TO STATE HOUSE?
    CRY MY BELOVED ZAMBIA.

  24. hmmm ati ‘clamp down on internet bullies targeting women’…mmm Mwami , mwi tu shinga butter!which is it -policing the internet cos of women or to sniff out critics of the government?…go on feed us the propaganda and remove our freedom of expression! anyway such is life..but no dictatorship lasts for ever!!..one day Zambia will really be free..but for now we are descending into a very very very dark period–but it wont be for long..

  25. Yes the gov’t will start regulating online media to stop abuse of women and they will use the selfsame laws to shut down online websites and individuals with divergent views. This is the reason he is busy poaching MPs to pass through such legislation.
    Rise up, wise up and wake up people!!

  26. He just wants a guise to clamp down of freedom of expression. If he really meant to deal with harassment of women he would fire GBM, oh and actually he would stop bullying the first lady himself.
    He has ‘chased’ that woman once every year ever since they got married, can that be a man who wants to stop harassment?

  27. ZWD encourages insults especially from the hungry hyna HH supporters!The government should take steps to regulate this publication or just ban it all together.It seems this publications was established for the purpose of insulting opponents of the hungry hyna and his tribal party.It has also specialised in lies,falsewoods and alarming da nation.The ZWD is not adding value to Zambia but encouraging disrespect and arnachy!!

  28. when ZWD knew they had invited common wealth ,they wrote a very positive article about the first lady.not the usual nonsense Loitering headline they put up.clamp them please.

  29. This coming on the heels of a Post Newspaper editorial on the same subject, the president, as always, seems to wallow in creating the impression that he is acting on orders from the newspaper editor.

  30. Wonder of all wonders.The political bully is talking of the evils of gender based internet bullying??? How about you cleanse yourself 1st of all the political bullying Mr Sata? Hypocrisy abounds in you mwaiche.

  31. Paranoia reigns. Perhaps it is worth removing heads buried in the sand and waking up to the global reality that as you worry about local political agendas, there is a meeting going on in New York where people from different countries are seeking a global agreement to deal with issues relating to women. The Indian delegation for example, have the current high profile rape cases causing them to change their legislation, the EU states about half the women in the workplace are experiencing harassment and discrimination. Just looking at the line up of the US delegation is a clue to where this is headed. So if his wife has been invited over there to address certain topics then perhaps he is getting all hot under the collar for reasons other than the simplistic petty stuff some are fixated by.

  32. All Zambians hate this moron black Chimpanzee satanist Dictator SATA!

    Let Sata move in a minibus again as he did in Livingstone if he wont be hit with stones by Zambians who are suffering from hunger as they can not buy Mealie Meal nor Fuel despite working hard & having money to buy these essential commodities.

    In Sata’s ignorant illiterate head, he is going to ban the internet!

    Let this evil satanist Dictator Sata yap & bark like a dog & an empty tin! For your own information the more your open your foul mouth, the more you annoy Zambians to write more on the internet.

    THE ONLY THING THAT WILL STOP Zambians from posting criticism of your rotten evil PF govt is when u stop your dictatorial governance.

    Threats from u Sata nor from police wont stop free expression here!

  33. Communist PF Dictator Sata & evil Fred Mmembe of the Post thought they will suppress freedom of expression in Zambia, well it manifested in another form! The internet!

    Am sure even my true brothers & sisters at the Red Brick in Lusaka are so happy to see that freedom of expression has manifested in on the internet.

    At least listening Luck Dube music encourages a lot, when these evil forces of Sata, Nchito, Mmembe & Kabimba with their cohorts oppress Zambians with no mess in their evil consciences.

    Surely Sata u should be afraid of not fulfilling your promises than threatening Zambians.

    Very soon will march to State House, all the isolated riots breaking out in Zambians are just indicators that we Zambians are angry will all that is called PF & associated with Sata!

  34. At least my poor hubby is obeying my orders for once that he should not a officiate at the women day celebrations in my absence just in case things went wrong,ka?Well i arrived safely in the Big Apple,there is a smell of fresh air all over for a change ala nachula with the smell of ammonia in our bed room.I don’t know how s..t..u..p..i..d SUBA and her niece are managing the dialysis machine at the moment.Anyway let me read what ZWD is saying about seems we are in good books at the moment.By the way tomorrow ni shopping time……………..

  35. Start from the ground – within the fabric of what is left of our ‘cultured’ communities, if you are to make any head way in bringing some form of sanity in the way girls and women are treated. The internet is only but one conduit through which what has gone wrong with our society is evidenced. It is the remote superficial part – slippery and perhaps futile to try and deal with, when you have not analysed the causes of this scourge from within the huts, homes, systems, political will and socio-economic grounding. Deal with the reality – its causes, before venturing into outer webspace.

  36. Amazing, he only scored 60 comments, all day? This is loss of popularity. Put President Clive Chirwa’s story here, you will see 200 comments in 2 hours

    • Which Chirwa,useless i.d.i.o.t ,thats where you go wrong as Zambians just because one has a PhD you think he’s everything,he’s not .Let him do what he knows best not politics.Look at how a career politician like the devil ,Sata himself has failed miserably what more this chap called Chirwa?No more experiments please.

  37. mr president which women are you trying to protect, 90% of zambian women live on less than a dollar a day , thus using the internet is not on there to do list. there are more pressing issue that need to be addressed like yesterday, lets talk about improving health services, job creation, acountability, stoping corruption, and separation of power.i have a feeling that what you talking about is not about protecting women but rather a power thing..

  38. mr president which women are you trying to protect, 90% of zambian women live on less than a dollar a day , thus using the internet is not on there to do list. there are more pressing issue that need to be addressed like yesterday, lets talk about improving health services, job creation, acountability, stoping corruption, and separation of power.i have a feeling that what you talking about, is not about protecting women but rather a power thing..

  39. What about the ‘Post’ for publishing steamy pictures of girls and women’s ‘in between the thighs’ area in night clubs. When challenged, the editorial of the ‘Post’ said this was to expose the moral decay of “your own children” from “your own homes”. Have they been warned other than a lukewarm comment from Sakeni? The insults from the internet though regrettable, are a sign of “simmering & bottled up anger” of “your own Zambians” in “their own homes”. The good news is Government can change it. Just do the right thing for the people. Period!

  40. LAST MONTH WE REPORTED THAT “MR. KABIMBA HAD ADVISED PRESID. SATA TO RECALL ZAMBIA’S HIGH COMMISSIONER TO THE UK COL. BIZWAYO NKUNIKA BECAUSE HE DOES NOT TRUST MR. NKUNIKA & SOME EASTENERS AS THE PRESIDENT WILL BE EXPECTED TO VISIT UK ALMOST EVERY TWO MONTHS FOR MEDICATION, A SITUATION THAT MAY RESULT IN TOO MUCH LEAKAGES.

    WELL THE PRESIDENT HAS NOT YET BEEN FLOWN TO UK BUT THIS WEEK WE CAN REPORT THAT THE PRESIDENT’S HEALTH CONTINUES TO BE AILING & ACCORDING TO SECURITY & STATE HOUSE SOURCES WHO HAVE BRIEFED THE WATCHDOG PRES. MICHAEL SATA HAS NOT BEEN SEEN AT STATE HOUSE FOR CLOSE TO TWO WEEKS NOW.

    OUR SOURCES HAVE ALSO REVEALED THAT WHEN SATA WAS SWEARING IN SIAMUNENE, AS DEPUTY MINISTER HE WAS NOT OKAY. HE WAS UTTERING SOME INCOHERENT AND SHOCKING THINGS BORDERING ON…

  41. The origins of Dictatorship in Africa have links to colonial rule

    Idi Amin Dada (mid-1920s – 16 August 2003) was the third President of Uganda from 1971 to 1979. Amin joined the British colonial regiment, the King’s African Rifles, in 1946, serving in Somalia and Kenya. Eventually, Amin held the rank of Major general in the post-colonial Ugandan Army and became its Commander before seizing power.

    Michael Chilufya Sata was born and brought up in Mpika, Northern Province. He worked as a police officer, railway man and trade unionist during colonial rule. He spent time in London working on the railway sweeping the platforms. Among other things, he was a porter at Victoria railway station. Sata began actively participating in the politics of Northern Rhodesia in 1963.

    • Amin’s rule was characterised by human rights abuse, political repression, ethnic persecution, extrajudicial killings, nepotism, corruption, and gross economic mismanagement. The number of people killed as a result of his regime is estimated by international observers and human rights groups to range from 100,000 to 500,000.

      Sata’s rule is being observed by international observers and human rights groups.

    • Please, do not mislead the world. There is every difference between Sata and Idi Amin. Idi Amin usurped power by military coup whilst Sata is God annointed the ballot box of democratic elections and has been in power for less than two years but not more than ten years which the constitution does not allow. Those people who voted for him in Zambia are still very happy except those on blogs. Please, make it a habbit to visit Zambia every three or atleast six months in a year and you will never regret your effort to do so.

  42. The event was “shunned” not just by the leaders of opposition parties, but also by H.E. The President of the Republic of Zambia.

  43. MCS is right most of you just want to insult on these platforms instead of disscussing developmental issues. Just because you are failures in your lives dont take out on. gvothers. MCS was ordained by God to be president and he will be untill God says its over. If you think the internet is safe for you to do all the insulting then you are wrong

    • We are here because we are not happy with the way things are running in our country. People have died mysteriously, our law and order is on the brink, mealie meal shortages, students rioting whilst the president and his entourage are enjoying tax payers money. Maybe you are a beneficiary of the current chaotic situation. If you are then enjoy your time quietly while you can because we shall continue to insult until we cleanse the buffoons. The internet is sweet, you can win elections with it (US) or it can bring dictators down(Egypt and Libya)

  44. A person called chinkubala went ahead to vote.Bakaidi as well went to vote,Sata nid to come out clean and explain exactly wat he means….his message does not inspire,it is raw and a share waste of time.

  45. “Let right be done” The drama of injustice in Zambia is a breeding ground for anarchy. We are not insulting for the sake of insulting but because the days where you could do as you wished at the people’s expense are over. We have experienced extreme poverty under the FJT and also a taste of prosperity under LPM. We are merely reminding MCS that we don’t want to go back to the bust days of UNIP. We want to move on and if the head of state chooses to ignore this then we shall press on with our opinions. After all our votes count.

  46. UPND ,U ARE VERY DULL.U ARE ALWAYS OUT OF TOPIC. WHAT ABOUT YO C/WEALTH REPORT ?IT IS A FLOP AND SHOWS THE EXTENT TO WHICH YO AMATURISH HAS TAKEN U. SHAME UPON U FAILURES. EDUCATED *****S WHO’LL NEVER MATCH SATA. KEEP ON INSULTING OR SLEEPING.

  47. Ba LT, ni reporting ya how iyi? “President Sata was speaking in Lusaka today in a speech ready by Vice President Guy Scott” – how could he have spoken when he wasn’t there?! Very misleading!! What are you covering up??

  48. leave the internet to people who know how important it is to have….you will soon leave it ..ZWD is the best thing ever happened to Zambia..

  49. oohhh yes these people who are in the habbit of insulting women should be caged.using the internet to hide their indenty.We will clean you soon!!!

  50. although the presidents intentions seem right they don’t make sense blocking facebook or whatever wont solve things. Mushota get a life your probably just some bimbo looking for attention clearly swerve whore

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