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

    • blobjim [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Twitter literally deleted a tweet from the country's own president. The tweet wasn't even that inflammatory.

      • soufatlantasanta [any]
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        4 years ago

        literally so fucking what

        he could have opened diplomatic channels, done literally anything other than this to counter that. what is wrong with people on this thread jesus fuck I swear half of you are 14 year olds edgelords with hammer and sickle avis who have never travelled outside the United States and think anything is based if it targets anything in the US without actually considering any broader repercussions for the global working class get a FUCKING grip

        if you've ever travelled to an authoritarian country in the Global South you know they rarely if ever do things in the direct interests of their people. America has had a big hand in keeping it that way but shit like banning social media and putting up firewalls is completely aside from that

        • blobjim [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          It was Twitter, an American company, that deleted the tweet. I would always side with some crap leader in another country over the US government's designs. Deal with one's own country first. I don't entirely know about Nigeria-US relations but Nigeria is a part of China's Belt and Road Initiative, so there's always the potential for a US coup.

          • soufatlantasanta [any]
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            4 years ago

            come back and talk to me once your understanding of international relations has progressed beyond that of an edgy 11-year-old who discovered Marxism two weeks ago and now thinks everything Twitter does is personally directed by Langley through voodoo dolls. I'm not denying it can be used as a tool of US imperialism, I'm saying banning it in response to that is idiotic and leaders in the global south who do so have demonstrated that they're doing it out of spite and because it conflicts with their own self-interest, like Modi and now Buhari

            • ThomasMuentzner [he/him, comrade/them]
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              4 years ago

              man you are really quick with the name calling , do you ever ask yourself that you might lose something of value when you call people not agreeing with you : "edgy 11-year-old who discovered Marxism two weeks ago "

              instead of considering what they say about "Sovereignty" a tiny little bit .... ?

              • soufatlantasanta [any]
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                4 years ago

                instead of considering what they say about “Sovereignty” a tiny little bit … ?

                you're assuming I haven't considered their viewpoints. I have. It's because of personal experience living in the global south that I think the arguments in favor of governments that want to ban online platforms are wack