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Twitter's CEO Jack Dorsey personally donated money to groups organizing protests in Nigeria. Twitter also created a special emoji just for the protests.

Doesn't the fact that these conservative politicians constantly get elected belie your statement that they are supported by a majority of the population? Trump opposed them all and yet won in 2016 and had a decent showing in 2020.

It used to be that everyone supported democracy -- the rural, the poor, the uneducated, along with urban, rich and educated all getting a say in their government. Not it seems some factions in the left have sold out to corporatocracy in a bid to fast track their favorite policies.

I don't think this is going to end well.

Why would Indians want their politics to be dictated by the west? Indians sacrificed blood sweat and tears to get the British out, why should they have to fight to get the Americans out?

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.

Twitter controlling political discourse in America is not imperialism, just corporatocracy. If Americans would like to live under such a system, so be it. Just keep your frankensteins out of our country please.

Nigeria is a (albeit flawed) democratic government with elections which the current President won in 2019. Jack Dorsey personally donated to protesters. Twitter also created an emoticon to support them.[1] Then Twitter decides to remove the sitting President's post.

We all saw how well the "Arab Spring" went. We don't need Big Tech to go and create more failed states. Strong democracy and good government never work being built top down.

[1] https://africa.businessinsider.com/local/lifestyle/twitter-u...

Kudos to Nigeria. The government, and governmental policies of any country are for their citizens to decide, not for Silicon Valley elites to dictate. Any other time period elites trying to control other countries political affairs would be called for what it is -- imperialism.

People seem to have the idea that WeChat is some sort of amazing application -- it's not. In fact the only reason why it has the market share it does in China is simply because all competitors are blocked.

Some of WeChat's real pain points are: - No backing up your messages to the cloud like WhatsApp or having them loaded from the server like Facebook Messenger. Moving all your messages from one phone to another is quite the ordeal .

- Complete disregard for platform standards. Specifically notifications on Android and Windows 10 are atrocious. Both WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger have notifications that are well integrated with the especially the Android notification system, WeChat notifications however are not.

-A lot of nice to have chat features are either non existent or have just recently been introduced. For example a poor implementation of quoting a previous message was just introduced like a month ago, and there are no reactions for specific messages -- and no timeline for implementing them either.

WeChat does have quite a bit of different "apps" built into it, but not really more convenient to use than the separate apps are. It's mainly just a casualty of China's lack of anti monopoly legislation.On my phone I have Alipay (the other half of china's online payment duopoly) installed together with WeChat, and almost always use it for payment (It's pretty much accepted everywhere WeChat is)