Re:Twitter Ban in Nigeria
by jakelazaroff on Saturday June 05, 2021 @09:14AM
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A company deciding not to transact with someone is not analogous to a government preventing its citizens from accessing portions of the web.
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Re:Twitter Ban in Nigeria
by amadeuspagel on Saturday June 05, 2021 @09:47AM
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My comment states a specific analogy, which is that a lot of the excuses people give for the former also apply to the latter. You can't refute this just by stating that it's "not analogous".
Re:Twitter Ban in Nigeria
by jakelazaroff on Saturday June 05, 2021 @09:56AM
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I suppose they’re speciously similar, but the argument at its core is “people should be able to freely associate” which cuts against this decision by the Nigerian government.
Re:Twitter Ban in Nigeria
by throwaway6250 on Saturday June 05, 2021 @09:29AM
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The idea that companies should be able to control governments is a very american idea, and is pretty much not accepted anywhere else.
When a website actively supports destabilizing forces against a nation, the least that nation (and it's people) can do is to block said website.