Uganda’s President Museveni shuts social media ahead of election, warns Facebook
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has ordered a shutdown of social media ahead of a tense election. He accused Facebook of ’arrogance’ after the platform purged accounts linked to his re-election campaign. He warned Facebook that taking a position against the ruling party would jeopardize the social media giant’s operations in the country. Currently, Facebook and WhatsApp aren’t working in Uganda.
In blatant hypocrisy, Twitter condemns the move: “Access to information and freedom of expression, including the public conversation on Twitter, is never more important than during democratic processes, particularly elections.” ... while they repeatedly blocked access to information in the US and are now being sued for it.
Social media should not meddle in elections. Where this would be a red flag in the past, current events make me change my mind. I understand why you would want to ban twitter and facebook these days.
Keep in mind, if facebook were held by conservatives (instead of socialists) there would be a move to remove it. I.e. Parler
And low and behold... The Big tech gigants has CONDEMNED the shutdown of the social media, because ITS ANTI DEMOCRATIC to block people from expressing their opinions! Well, ladies and gentlemen, if you never heard or seen DOUBLE STANDARDS before, just take a deeeeep sniff and get yourselfs familiar with the stench of BULLSHIT!
Hm... Eliminating social media from the election equation does eliminate a bunch of meddling.
Smart they don’t want to have what the US had and just be a censor machine for one side.
Unless governments and citizens stand up to people like Zuckerberg, Cook, Bezos and of course Google they will start to own us. Collectively while businesses in the lockdown collapsed in total the f#%^ oligarchs have become collectively $2 trillion richer.
Twitters repsonse: thats not fair we should have every right to meddle in your elections. Tone deaf
Last year's big tech is acting like a world government. By blocking an closing of all accounts that don't fit theire narrative, they infringed many governments including in the us and eu. In my country several political mp's are getting banned. While others, from the left side, who scream for violence against the white, don't get banned. It's a good thing, silicon valley can't intervene in elections.
Dictator! Trump wants to be like this a-Hole
Poetic justice. Twitters response was one of the most hypocritical thing ever written.
Good. Screw Facebook.
Social media is not the sincere and free expression of the people. With enough money, populistic propaganda can be easily brought to trending and a lie repeated enough times, becomes an undeniable truth, based on which its supporters would fight or even start a riot/insurrection. Sounds familiar??. No wonder Social Media are being suspended.
Good.. Because social media is used to influence elections way too much. So much BS and propaganda.
JUST like here,if you're a conservative
Remove Section 230 now!
Democrats are doing that here. That’s the wY tyranny does it
So Facebook has branched out from only interfering in US elections..the CIA would be proud
What, Facebook is meddling in other countries elections too? It’s like big tech is the new CIA
Now that's one of the worst consequences of big tech banning Trump. By doing so they've just earned a bad reputation of unfree and unreliable media, and now real dictatorships can accuse them of being a threat to "freedom of speech" and "democracy" and have a good excuse to just ban them if they need or want to.