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June 7th, 2021 
Awake Goy
Twitter declared access to its platform a ‘human right’ on Saturday, prompting conservatives to accuse the firm of hypocrisy after it banned former President Donald Trump and millions of others for violating its terms of service.
The social media giant’s statement came as a response to Nigeria’s decision to ban Twitter over the deletion of a tweet from Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari that was seen as threatening separatist movements.
‘We are deeply concerned by the blocking of Twitter in Nigeria. Access to the free and #OpenInternet is an essential human right in modern society,’ the company said in a statement.
‘We will work to restore access for all those in Nigeria who rely on Twitter to communicate and connect with the world. #KeepitOn.’
Bla bla bla! Let’s see you go block and censor more presidents. Come on, we dare you! F-ing scumbags!
Twitter declared access to its platform a ‘human right’ on Saturday while conservatives ripped the platform for the statement, citing its January 2021 ban of Donald Trump.
President Buhari’s tweet reportedly referenced the bloody civil war in Nigeria’s Biafra region in the late 1960s, during which a million people were killed, in what some perceived as a veiled threat to modern day separatists.
‘Those of us in the fields for 30 months, who went through the war, will treat’ the secessionists ‘in the language they understand,’ reads the tweet from Buhari – who was a military officer in the civil war.
Twitter removed the tweet and said it violated policies against ‘abusive behavior.’ The company’s rules prohibit promoting or threatening violence.
Nigeria’s Federal Ministry of Information and Culture then tweeted on Friday that the social media account would be banned across the country with violators reportedly facing prosecution.
‘The Federal Government has suspended, indefinitely, the operations of the microblogging and social networking service, Twitter, in Nigeria,’ the ministry tweeted.
After Twitter’s response on Saturday, critics of the platform took to the platform in a bid to compare Nigeria’s nationwide suppression with the ban Trump and some conservatives have faced for violating the company’s policies in the United States.
Liz Wheeler, a conservative author, tweeted: ‘Access to the free & #OpenInternet is an essential human right in modern society… unless you’re Donald Trump.
‘Or reporting on Hunter Biden’s laptop. Or discussing the biology of gender. Or the murderous dictator of Iran. Or a Chinese Communist Party peon lying about COVID.’
Lavern Spicer, a Republican who unsuccessfully ran for election to the U.S. House in 2020, responded that she was ‘deeply concerned by the suspending of President Donald Trump on Twitter.’
‘Access to the free and #OpenInternet is an essential human right in modern society, even if you disagree with their politics,’ she wrote.
The actor James Woods wrote: ‘If irony were a food, Twitter could cure hunger overnight…’
New York Post journalist Jon Levine also took to condemning Twitter, writing: ‘Twitter commits itself to “free and open internet” just months after banning … THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.’
Other Twitter users, however, posted that Twitter banning Trump for violating its terms of service and Nigeria banning the entirety of Twitter for all of its citizens are not comparable.
‘Nobody suspended Trump from the WHOLE internet for Pete’s sake. He was suspended for breaking rules he agreed to adhere to,’ tweeted @marajode.
Trump was permanently banned the day after the January 6 US Capitol riot after Twitter accused him of using his account – which had close to 90 million followers – of inciting violence.
Twitter is being blocked because they were censoring the political discourse of Nigeria. The immoral brats daring to raise a voice after they censored not just some random Nigerian but THEIR PRESIDENT. What would they expect to happen?
If Trump didn’t do anything, he didn’t because he’s a spineless coward who promised the moon and the oceans yet delivered nothing but Nigeria on the other hand, why would it NOT ban a foreign US corporation? And now when they get banned they come out and say Nigeria is against freedom of speech?
Shameless thugs, they should be banned not just in Nigeria but everywhere around the world where they politically meddled or deleted a single tweet from a politician or any political color. This should be a US-only “platform” go shove your platform up your ass America! We don’t need it, we can make our own just like Russia has VK and OK. Nigeria can make its own too.
Each country must make their own social media, we don’t need or want American social media in our countries. Imagine the shamelessness of an American social media to enforce social norms and bans and rules in foreign countries. Unbelievable… Applauses for Nigeria, Africa is showing the way which we must all follow. Needless to mention that Facebook must also be banned, in fact more than Twitter.
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