Uganda bans social media ahead of election

Re:Uganda bans social media ahead of election by blisterpeanuts on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @04:37PM (#25754152)

This is splitting hairs. Twitter has no problem booting millions of people off their platform for political purposes. Clearly, they also don't mind that a rising competitor (Parler) was put out of business overnight.

Yet, they don't like it when a country blocks them. This is hypocrisy, regardless how people might try to distinguish one kind of "blocking" from another.

It would be better if Uganda didn't block social media. It would also be better if social media didn't block users here in the U.S.

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Re:Uganda bans social media ahead of election by RankingMember on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @09:27AM (#25762311)

> It would also be better if social media didn't block users here in the U.S.

Would it, though? Do you think social media should be a completely unbounded venue for discourse? HN has rules; if I violate them by attacking others or otherwise being a jerk and get banned, is that really a bad thing? I don't think so, personally. We've all been places online with lax standards and absent/ignorant mods, and, generally, it's a shitshow race to the bottom of personal attacks and racism.

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Re:Uganda bans social media ahead of election by beervirus on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @04:54PM (#25754414)

It would be best of all if social media did not exist.

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