Posted on 06/06/2021 11:49:30 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Twitter argued that a free and open internet is "an essential human right in modern society," which many found to be comically hypocritical since the big tech platform is often accused of censoring conservative voices.
The situation stemmed from an ongoing dispute between Twitter and the Nigerian government. Twitter deleted a stern and threatening tweet posted by Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari, which condemned attacks on public infrastructure in the country's southeast region, including arson attacks on government offices and police stations.
"Many of those misbehaving today are too young to be aware of the destruction and loss of lives that occurred during the Nigerian Civil War," Buhari wrote on Tuesday. "Those of us in the fields for 30 months, who went through the war, will treat them in the language they understand."
Buhari referenced the "brutal two-year Nigeria-Biafra war, which killed an estimated one to three million people, mostly from the Igbo tribe in the eastern part of the country between 1967-1970," according to CNN.
Twitter removed the tweet written by the Nigerian president, claiming it had violated the platform's policy on abusive behavior.
In retaliation, the Nigerian government banned Twitter from the African nation.
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Does Donald Trump have a human right to this platform? Do conservatives? Do people who have vaccine hesitancy?
People need alternate platforms instead of just FB and twit and instagram. Need good conservative platforms or even ones that are fair.
“Bashed” is not the same as “punished”. Conservatives are their own worst enemy, refusing as a whole to give up the platform completely. If modern-day Conservatives won’t make that sacrifice, you sure as hell can bet they won’t make any other sacrifice for the good of the country.
Accused of?
They blatantly do so. I don’t care. I never would use twitter but what is with the wimpiness?
Maybe they consider certain people to be Untermenschen, undeserving of basic human rights?
That just means the Left doesn’t even consider conservatives human.
Many think we’re rabid animals that need to be put down.
twitter helped steal the election
and helped its coverup.
where is the accountability?
duh there is none.
A lot of us are worse than Hitler, so yeah, no human rights for us.
There's Gab and Clouthub. Trump is coming out with his own platform soon.
I am not a fan of the president of Nigeria, but between Twitter and the president of Nigeria, I think Twitter is a bigger problem. Twitter tried to censor him, and in turn got censored from the most populous country in Africa, and one of the major countries in sub-saharan Africa.
De-humanizing ones enemies makes committing atrocities so much easier for the conscience and gathering more followers to commit them.
The banning of Twitter in Nigeria will give the ‘people of color’ that make up that country an opportunity to build a major Internet company.
Why are any conservatives feeding clicks and revenue to Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, or etc????
Quit these damned communist sites NOW!!!
All African nations need to ban Twitter. The sooner the better.
Everything that President Bubari said in that Tweet was exactly right.
The pin heads at Twitter may not know this, but President Buhari was a general who fought in the bloody, nasty Nigerian civil war. No one wants any of that to happen again.
Twitter is surplus to Nigeria's requirements. Ban Twitter FOR GOOD.
Thats easy, twitter doesn’t consider Conservatives to be human.
democrat beliefs....... Conservatives are not humans, like babies.
Donald Trump is one level above human.
You’re right.
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