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Uganda bans all social media ahead of election, sparking outrage
New York Post ^ | January 12, 2021 | 5:30 pm | Tamar Lapin

Posted on 01/13/2021 10:05:35 AM PST by Olog-hai

Uganda shut down all social media in the country Tuesday after the country’s longtime leader accused Facebook of taking sides in the upcoming presidential election on Thursday.

President Yoweri Museveni, 76, apologized for the inconvenience caused by the ban, but said Uganda had no choice after Facebook removed several accounts tied to his re-election campaign. […]

The social networking giant didn’t immediately respond to the president’s comments on Tuesday but Twitter, which also appeared to be affected ban, blasted the move.

“We strongly condemn internet shutdowns – they are hugely harmful, violate basic human rights and the principles of the #OpenInternet,” it said in a statement. …

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Local News
KEYWORDS: elections; facebook; socialmedia; socialmediatyrants; twitter; uganda
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Ah, so FB and Twitter can ban their competition, but they can never be banned because it “violate(s) basic human rights”.
1 posted on 01/13/2021 10:05:35 AM PST by Olog-hai
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Can’t make that stuff up!!


2 posted on 01/13/2021 10:06:47 AM PST by SMARTY (“If you have ten thousand regulations, you destroy all respect for the law.” Winston Churchill)
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To: Olog-hai

Won’t surprise me Germany shuts down Twitter/Facebook by late-summer ahead of the national election in September.


3 posted on 01/13/2021 10:11:30 AM PST by pepsionice
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To: Olog-hai

Sounds as if Uganda is seeing if Mark Zuckerberg can “Squeel like a pig!” “WEE! WEE! WEE!”

As we used to say about this, “He can dish it out, but he can’t take it!”


4 posted on 01/13/2021 10:11:31 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( )
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5 posted on 01/13/2021 10:14:08 AM PST by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL)
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"Ah, so FB and Twitter can ban their competition, but they can never be banned because it “violate(s) basic human rights”.
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The left is hypocritical and do not doubt for a moment that they know it themselves. Anything for power is what they do.

6 posted on 01/13/2021 10:16:41 AM PST by wildcard_redneck ( COVID lockdowns is are the Establishment's attack on the middle class and our Republic)
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To: Olog-hai

So Uganda is less a banana republic then the USSA.


7 posted on 01/13/2021 10:17:26 AM PST by Kozak (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.)
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Notice what the filthy hypocrites at twatter said! They condemned this as they shut down free speech in the USA.


8 posted on 01/13/2021 10:31:47 AM PST by I want the USA back (The nation is in the grips of hysterical insanity, as usual.)
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To: Olog-hai

Good for little old Uganda. Thank you, Ugandans.


9 posted on 01/13/2021 10:33:19 AM PST by Parmy
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We strongly condemn internet shutdowns – they are hugely harmful, violate basic human rights

Isn't it ironic?

10 posted on 01/13/2021 10:35:00 AM PST by Bearshouse
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To: Olog-hai; Army Air Corps; MeganC; CondoleezzaProtege
Uganda is a private country, they can do what they like!

If Facebook and Twitter have a problem, they can build their own Uganda!

11 posted on 01/13/2021 10:38:12 AM PST by KC_Lion
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Okay, that made me laugh.


12 posted on 01/13/2021 10:43:04 AM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Bearshouse

They sure won’t eat what they dish out, will they?

Karma’s gonna leave their butts very sore. And raw.


13 posted on 01/13/2021 10:44:15 AM PST by polymuser (A socialist is a communist without the power to take everything from their citizens...yet.)
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To: SMARTY

Perspective: Twitter was mass banning accounts on one SIDE of the election, so the government banned the service entirely in the name of fairness.


14 posted on 01/13/2021 10:45:17 AM PST by tbw2
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Uganda bans all social media ahead of election, sparking outrage

They'll probably have a more legitimate election than we had. I bet they use paper ballots and purple dye, and the dead don't vote.

15 posted on 01/13/2021 10:48:01 AM PST by The Sons of Liberty (“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction". It is dying on Our Watch.)
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sparking outrage

yes that Uganda is acting like an independent country trying to preserve its democracy while the US slips into 3rd worlds shithiledom

16 posted on 01/13/2021 11:11:13 AM PST by AndyJackson
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I just sent him this to him:

“As a citizen of the USA, a once free country, I want to tell you how much I wish we had a leader like you. Our feckless leadership representing conservative Christians have done nothing to stop increasing persecution of Christians. Your decision to put an end to communist led social media has saved your country. Its probably too late for us but I am happy that its not for you. God will judge counties and I am sure will find favor in Uganda. God bless you.”


17 posted on 01/13/2021 11:14:26 AM PST by TonyM (Score Event)
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Uganda is now more of a free country than the USA.

Who would have expected it, even six months ago?

18 posted on 01/13/2021 11:38:06 AM PST by Salman (It's not a "slippery slope" if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: Salman

The USA has given the green !ight to the dictators and military states everywhere that it is open season on corruption and power grabbing of it’s citizenry. The cat is out of the bag. Even if we somehow resume our own Integrity, the damage to the world caused by the paranoid witch burning coming from the Left is now running hot. Though it may seem we are fast approaching oblivion, God is still and always will be in control of human events.


19 posted on 01/13/2021 11:51:51 AM PST by Rainwave ("Work out your OWN salvation with fear and trembling")
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Look - the idiots at Twatter are condemning themselves.
20 posted on 01/13/2021 11:53:08 AM PST by NWFree
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