One Of Kenya’s Oldest Websites “Mashada.com” Get’s Shut Down!

It’s a truly sad day for Kenyan geeks and techies. No, not the type to wear hipster clothing and big geek glasses, i’m talking about the true blue geeks.

Chege Miati, our social media guru has noticed something… one of Kenya’s oldest sites has been shut down. Both Majani and Chege are insisting that we have a 5 second minute of silence.

The site which was run by David Kobia has been active since 1999 or thereabout but was more recently under investigation by the Kenyan government for alleged hate speech posted by it’s users. For those of you still in the dark, Kobia’s mashada.com was a forum for Kenyans from both within Kenya and those in the diaspora to discuss matters pertaining to anything Kenyan. From politics, to religion, to sports to entertainment.
The users of the forum had taken to using the site for hate-speech and propagating tribal chauvinism. Sad that a noble idea was ruined by such small minds and the heat is now on David Kobia. Efforts to reach him for a comment have proved futile.
Chege discovered the site was down because he posts links to Ghafla stories on the site and since he noticed that it was down, he’d been monitoring the situation. The site has been down since the government released a list of sites that were under investigation for hate-speech.