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For a bit more context (from the article) Twitter's CEO Jack Dorsey personally donated money to groups organizing protests in Nigeria. Twitter also created a s

For a bit more context (from the article) Twitter's CEO Jack Dorsey personally donated money to groups organizing protests in Nigeria. Twitter also created a special emoji just for the protests.

filleduchaos 5y ago
For a bit more context, the protests that Jack Dorsey donated to were against a police unit that regularly terrorised, extorted (ahem, robbed) and sometimes murdered young people based almost entirely on profiling such as "having locs" and "using an iPhone"[0]. 0. For example this is as recently as two days ago: https://twitter.com/codebeast/status/1400423232189120521 https://twitter.com/codebeast/status/1400423232189120521
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secondcoming 5y ago
> Twitter also created a special emoji just for the protests Ooft. Although I know nothing of Nigerian politics, that seemed like a dumb move.
- filleduchaos 5y ago
  Why does it seem like a dumb move?
  - secondcoming 5y ago
    Because Twitter is getting involved in politics. The US didn't like it when Russia got involved in its elections, so why is it ok for Twitter?
    - filleduchaos 5y ago
      Explain how exactly Twitter (the company) was getting involved in Nigerian elections, please?
      - 6foot4_82iq 5y ago
        Censorship. World leaders won't be gagged by Jack Dorsey. India is next.
        filleduchaos 5y ago
        The government whose action you're commending quite literally has a history of arresting & detaining its critics, extorting & sometimes murdering its citizens in the street, supporting blasphemy laws, and blocking content and even financial transactions that it deems dissident (and those blocks are implemented with such a wide brush that plenty of completely unrelated sites often get caught in the net). 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.
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        6foot4_82iq 5y ago
        > The government whose action you're commending quite literally has a history of arresting & detaining its critics, extorting & sometimes murdering its citizens in the street, supporting blasphemy laws, and blocking content and even financial transactions that it deems dissident (and those blocks are implemented with such a wide brush that plenty of completely unrelated sites often get caught in the net). 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.
- runarberg 5y ago
  From the point of view of a European living in America the #ENDSARS protests looked very similarly motivated as the #BLM protests in America and Europe. #BLM got their own emoji, so why wouldn’t #ENDSARS?
  - filleduchaos 5y ago
    Speaking as a Nigerian, somehow I'm not quite sure we're thought of as real communities with real people living real lives and not just a vague political blob on a map. 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.
  - lawnchair_larry 5y ago
    So you’re saying ENDSARS was based on a lie as well?
- tasogare 5y ago
  We are speaking of the platform that find it ok to ban a legally elected president because they disagreed with him politically. Twitter needs to be controlled more effectively to remain politically neutral, or they should register themselves as a political organization instead of pretending to be a business.

For a bit more context (from the article) Twitter's CEO Jack Dorsey personally donated money to groups organizing protests in Nigeria. Twitter also created a special emoji just for the protests.

filleduchaos 5y ago

For a bit more context, the protests that Jack Dorsey donated to were against a police unit that regularly terrorised, extorted (ahem, robbed) and sometimes murdered young people based almost entirely on profiling such as "having locs" and "using an iPhone"[0]. 0. For example this is as recently as two days ago: https://twitter.com/codebeast/status/1400423232189120521 https://twitter.com/codebeast/status/1400423232189120521

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secondcoming 5y ago

> Twitter also created a special emoji just for the protests Ooft. Although I know nothing of Nigerian politics, that seemed like a dumb move.

filleduchaos 5y ago
Why does it seem like a dumb move?
- secondcoming 5y ago
  Because Twitter is getting involved in politics. The US didn't like it when Russia got involved in its elections, so why is it ok for Twitter?
  - filleduchaos 5y ago
    Explain how exactly Twitter (the company) was getting involved in Nigerian elections, please?
    - 6foot4_82iq 5y ago
      Censorship. World leaders won't be gagged by Jack Dorsey. India is next.
      - filleduchaos 5y ago
        The government whose action you're commending quite literally has a history of arresting & detaining its critics, extorting & sometimes murdering its citizens in the street, supporting blasphemy laws, and blocking content and even financial transactions that it deems dissident (and those blocks are implemented with such a wide brush that plenty of completely unrelated sites often get caught in the net). 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.
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        6foot4_82iq 5y ago
        > The government whose action you're commending quite literally has a history of arresting & detaining its critics, extorting & sometimes murdering its citizens in the street, supporting blasphemy laws, and blocking content and even financial transactions that it deems dissident (and those blocks are implemented with such a wide brush that plenty of completely unrelated sites often get caught in the net). 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.
runarberg 5y ago
From the point of view of a European living in America the #ENDSARS protests looked very similarly motivated as the #BLM protests in America and Europe. #BLM got their own emoji, so why wouldn’t #ENDSARS?
- filleduchaos 5y ago
  Speaking as a Nigerian, somehow I'm not quite sure we're thought of as real communities with real people living real lives and not just a vague political blob on a map. 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.
- lawnchair_larry 5y ago
  So you’re saying ENDSARS was based on a lie as well?
tasogare 5y ago
We are speaking of the platform that find it ok to ban a legally elected president because they disagreed with him politically. Twitter needs to be controlled more effectively to remain politically neutral, or they should register themselves as a political organization instead of pretending to be a business.