based or cringe? One one hand human right activists in these countries are using Twitter to create awareness about the local isseus. On the other hand, CIA also uses it to manufacture consent to whatever plans they got

  • D61 [any]
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    3 years ago

    Read the title wrong... had me thinking that Nigeria was going to ban India after banning Twitter.

    Given the ability of social media to do sudden great harm, probably a good thing. It wasn't that long ago that ... I think it was Twitter Facebook (WhatsApp maybe)... that was being used to stoke racial hatred of Muslims in India right? There was either no ability or inclination to quash that shit from the high up muckety mucks.

    • machinegobrrrr [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      Given the ability of social media to do sudden great harm, probably a good thing

      they didn't ban social media though. they will be probably let other socials to move into the vaccum as long as they don't censor those in power

      • D61 [any]
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        3 years ago

        Well, you only need to go after the largest one at any one time to make a difference.

        It might not be a signal that the country is against social media platforms in all flavors just larger ones that are based outside the country that can be influenced by a foreign nation might be something to go after first.