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> 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.
        filleduchaos 5y ago
        > So has the US. Americans, and their mega corporations, have no moral high ground to lecture others. That's nice, but considering that I am a Nigerian I don't really see what that has to do with me. > No. Rather the pot should refrain from calling the kettle black "On the one hand we have a former military dictator currently heading a regime that has repeatedly shown that it has no qualms using its security forces to kill civilians in order to keep the populace in line (besides starving them of resources). On the other we have a social media platform deleting a post because people reported it. These two things are of course the same." > Censoring politicians has everything to do with elections. Twitter removed a tweet that can very credibly be read as threatening genocidal action after Nigerians reported it to the platform as threatening violence. I am still very patiently waiting for you to explicitly explain how, precisely, this is interfering with the country's elections.
        5y ago
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.

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.
        filleduchaos 5y ago
        > So has the US. Americans, and their mega corporations, have no moral high ground to lecture others. That's nice, but considering that I am a Nigerian I don't really see what that has to do with me. > No. Rather the pot should refrain from calling the kettle black "On the one hand we have a former military dictator currently heading a regime that has repeatedly shown that it has no qualms using its security forces to kill civilians in order to keep the populace in line (besides starving them of resources). On the other we have a social media platform deleting a post because people reported it. These two things are of course the same." > Censoring politicians has everything to do with elections. Twitter removed a tweet that can very credibly be read as threatening genocidal action after Nigerians reported it to the platform as threatening violence. I am still very patiently waiting for you to explicitly explain how, precisely, this is interfering with the country's elections.
        5y ago

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.