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

  • hahafuck [they/them]
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    4 years ago

    Just trying to make conversation really, i disagree with the staking of an absolute position in this matter but probably agree with you in this specific case

    • soufatlantasanta [any]
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      4 years ago

      fair enough. I guess in that case it makes sense but a big difference between China and Nigeria is that despite being wary of American tech and enacting restrictive internet policies, China's government is still nominally ML and still generally does its duty and service for its people. It's not comprised of military bureaucrats who got their posts from a junta, and it's not led by a military leader who has been in power for 30 years after taking it in a brutal coup.

      Despite all the nonsense people on reddit say about him, Xi is a pretty normal dude. Buhari is not.