> Twitter also created a special emoji just for the protests
Ooft. Although I know nothing of Nigerian politics, that seemed like a dumb move.
Ooft. Although I know nothing of Nigerian politics, that seemed like a dumb move.
You also see this in many people's inability to mentally separate a government from its citizens - they themselves know that they don't fully agree with everything their own governments do (even the ones they like), but other places get treated as monoliths whose governments' actions and opinions are obviously completely representative and in the best interests of the whole.
But of course, the real censorship is when a foreign social media platform that's used by a few percent of the population at maximum takes down a post.
It's always funny to see people cosplay at caring about censorship by...jumping to support the first actual authoritarian in sight.
And all that's beside the fact that this had nothing whatsoever to do with elections.
So has the US. Americans, and their mega corporations, have no moral high ground to lecture others.
> But of course, the real censorship is when a foreign social media platform that's used by a few percent of the population at maximum takes down a post.
Who elected Jack Dorsey and his band of far-left censors king? Twitter is a guest in every foreign country, as we're seeing play out.
> It's always funny to see people cosplay at caring about censorship by...jumping to support the first actual authoritarian in sight.
No. Rather the pot should refrain from calling the kettle black
> And all that's beside the fact that this had nothing whatsoever to do with elections.
Censoring politicians has everything to do with elections.
That's nice, but considering that I am a Nigerian I don't really see what that has to do with me.
> No. Rather the pot should refrain from calling the kettle black
"On the one hand we have a former military dictator currently heading a regime that has repeatedly shown that it has no qualms using its security forces to kill civilians in order to keep the populace in line (besides starving them of resources). On the other we have a social media platform deleting a post because people reported it. These two things are of course the same."
> Censoring politicians has everything to do with elections.
Twitter removed a tweet that can very credibly be read as threatening genocidal action after Nigerians reported it to the platform as threatening violence.
I am still very patiently waiting for you to explicitly explain how, precisely, this is interfering with the country's elections.