Posted on 07/11/2022 5:30:49 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The Nigerian government has asked Facebook and other social media platforms to prevent the pro-Biafra separatist group (IPOB) on their platforms.
The government said members of the group use these platforms to incite violence and instigate ethnic hatred in the country but the social media platforms have not done much to prevent these occurrences.
At a meeting with a team from Facebook in Abuja on Tuesday, the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, said since IPOB had been proscribed and classified as a terrorist organisation by the government, Facebook has no justification for yielding its platform to the organisation.
“For whatever reason, they seem to have now chosen Facebook as their platform of choice…and their tools include disinformation, incendiary statements, and hate speech. They use Facebook broadcasts to reach their followers, who are in the thousands."Mohammed said
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Hmmm. If Mohammed doesn’t like them, does that mean that they are the good guys?
If the request is from the left, Facebook will bend over and assume the Dorkbama/Biden position.
Sounds like they have the same problem we have here with social media letting hate groups reach out to foment violence. If only they would block leftist democrats we might all learn to get along.
“If Mohammed doesn’t like them, does that mean that they are the good guys?”
Americans always try to divide the world simply into good guys with white hats and bad guys with black hats. But in most of the third world there are no good guys. There are only various varieties of bad guys. A blogger who had spent time in various camps on different sides of the Syrian civil war said, “What Americans don’t understand are there aren’t any good guys here. There are guys who will burn you alive in a cage and guys who will just shoot you. Pick your poison.”
I’m sure they will have no problem with that request. They have tons of experience in censoring Americans.
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