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 deleted a post from the country's own president. That's the US censoring another world leader, in their own country. Seems like a pretty cut-and-dry case of imperialist intervention.

    From CNN:

    In that tweet on Tuesday, the Nigerian leader threatened to deal with people in the country's southeast, who he blames for the recurring attacks on public infrastructure in the region

    This is the Tweet twitter deleted:

    "Many of those misbehaving today are too young to be aware of the destruction and loss of lives that occurred during the Nigerian Civil War. Those of us in the fields for 30 months, who went through the war, will treat them in the language they understand,"

    The Tweet itself is at most rhetorically equivalent to Trump threatening of BLM protestors, but I don't think it even reaches that level since he's talking about separatist groups carrying out attacks on infrastructure. So my initial reaction is that it's a good step to maintain sovereignty in the country from some CIA ghouls censoring tweets against (their?) separatists.

    The president also said

    Mohammed also questioned Twitter's motives in Nigeria, saying, "the mission of Twitter in Nigeria is very very suspect..." at a news conference on Wednesday after Buhari's tweet was deleted.

    https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/04/africa/nigeria-suspends-twitter-operations-intl/index.html

    • Awoo [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      Very interesting. Good analysis. I appreciate it.

      • blobjim [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        It's just copy-paste from the CNN article in the screenshot :D

        • Awoo [she/her]
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          4 years ago

          I am particularly lazy today, it is 2.30am and it's 23celcius in a country with absolutely no aircon in any homes, I am fucking dying.

    • soufatlantasanta [any]
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      4 years ago

      The Tweet itself is at most rhetorically equivalent to Trump threatening of BLM protestors, but I don’t think it even reaches that level since he’s talking about separatist groups carrying out attacks on infrastructure. So my initial reaction is that it’s a good step to maintain sovereignty in the country from some CIA ghouls censoring tweets against (their?) separatists.

      tfw you're 13 years old, discovered Chomsky two days ago, and know some acronyms and the names of intelligence agencies and are now a professional Imperialism Understander :spongebob-party: