Beosten:
This is why you need speech regulation in this lawless nation. Dish out misleading facts and face the music. Awon eeyan PDP...

Eteka1:
You won't see them here now.

Susu888:
Mehn! Every day we are being shown exactly why we need to regulate the media .

Yet the man was shamelessly yelling at the top of his voice on t.v Unknown to the viewers it was all concocted nd to think he was a former CBN Governor, haba! At least protect your name and reputation na

How unfortunate, trying to tarnish the regime's image but ended up tarnishing your own.

Non the less he and the t.v channel that hosted him should be prosecuted for public misinformation, this can't keep going on.

I fully support the social media bill and any bill to regulate the media.

Beosten:
This is why you need speech regulation in this lawless nation. Dish out misleading facts and face the music. Awon eeyan PDP...

QueenAddyRealty:
With due respect to my friends above advocating for regulating the media, I’d like to say that there are already laws that guide the publication and dissemination of wrong and false information and there are also stipulated penalties where a party is found to have breached said laws. Any amendment of these led would only make the punishments more draconian and more weighty than the offense committed.

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Xisnin:

No.
This is why you should learn to read and do independent research.

stonemasonn:
stop talking rubbish, how do you want social media to be regulated? Be careful what you wish for.

CaptainMeks:


You are very very wrong!

What you do not understand is that those laws only take effect after the damage has been done.

E.G in Rwanda hate speeches fueled the Hutu and Tutsi Genocide of some years ago.

The damage gets done first before the repercussion. So why not apply preventive measures to avoid a repeat of such damages?

Today Rwanda is seriously censoring her social media in order to avoid a repeat of the genocide via hate speech especially in this day of faceless social media.

Should we not learn from such countries so we can avoid what they went through especially with the level of ethnic hatred going on in Nigeria from Igbo to Yoruba to Hausa?

That is why Social media needs to be regulated. Imagine what happened in Rwanda happening here in Nigeria you would see that Rwanda would have been childs play

Link below to show how seriously censored social media is in Rwanda

https://cpj.org/reports/2014/12/legacy-of-rwanda-genocide-includes-media-restricti.php

Before the laws of Libel and slander kick in damage has long been done. People in their numbers would have been killed (if it is hate speech related) before laws kick in.

Prevention is better than cure

This is why in the USA people are clamoring for gun control laws in order to stop the situation whereby anyone can easily gain access to a fire arm and walk into any place and start shooting people.

There are laws for such crimes in the USA but before the laws kick in many would have been killed first and this is why there is a clamour for gun control as a preventive measure .

For many careless talk has led to the killing of others as witnessed in the Tutsi and Hutu massacre of Rwanda

QueenAddyRealty:


Sir/Ma, with due respect, there are legal remedies for all you have cited as lapses of libel/slander laws.

First of all, Dr. Obadiah could well be sued and I believe of the government has a case, they should win easily. I mean, a government that can go and end ongoing proceedings in a court with gunshots and a stampede should have no problems securing a mere libel/slander conviction. Upon which Dr. Obadiah will be made to pay damages and public apologies, etc.

Also, there is such a thing as “incitement to violence” in law and it is a crime. This means anybody found guilty of inciting violence already has their punishment prescribed in the law books.

I truly believe that adding more bite to libel/slander laws is nothing short of a dictatorial attempt at policing speech. By the way, why now as the world gets more democratic and the fights for human freedom get more holistic does the Nigerian government want to restrict the boundaries of acceptable speech?



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QueenAddyRealty:


Sir/Ma, with due respect, there are legal remedies for all you have cited as lapses of libel/slander laws.

First of all, Dr. Obadiah could well be sued and I believe of the government has a case, they should win easily. I mean, a government that can go and end ongoing proceedings in a court with gunshots and a stampede should have no problems securing a mere libel/slander conviction. Upon which Dr. Obadiah will be made to pay damages and public apologies, etc.

Also, there is such a thing as “incitement to violence” in law and it is a crime. This means anybody found guilty of inciting violence already has their punishment prescribed in the law books.

I truly believe that adding more bite to libel/slander laws is nothing short of a dictatorial attempt at policing speech. By the way, why now as the world gets more democratic and the fights for human freedom get more holistic does the Nigerian government want to restrict the boundaries of acceptable speech?



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CaptainMeks:


Again you are wrong. Every nation in the world is working to regulate social media in their nation despite also having so called laws for libel etc.

What you fail to realize is that Social media is like a government of its own with zero regulation and if left unchecked would set everywhere ablaze easily. Let me show you a simple example.

These are some Nairaland rules against free speech

1. Please post all threads in the right section, and don't derail threads by posting off topic.
2. Don't abuse, bully, deliberately insult/provoke, fight, or wish harm to Nairaland members OR THEIR TRIBES.
3. Don't threaten, support or DEFEND violent acts against any person, tribe, race, animals, or group (e.g. rape).
4. Discussions of the art of love-making should be restricted to the hidden sexuality section.
5. Don't post pornographic or disgusting pictures or videos on any section of Nairaland.
6. Don't post adverts or affiliate links outside the areas where adverts are explicitly allowed.
7. Don't say, do, or THREATEN to do anything that's detrimental to the security, success, or reputation of Nairaland.
8. Don't post false information on Nairaland.
9. Don't use Nairaland for illegal acts, e.g scams, plagiarism, hacking, gay meetings, incitement, promoting secession.
10. Don't violate the privacy of any people e.g. by posting their private pics, info, or chats without permission.

The reason behind the laws nairaland has is so there would be a sense of SANITY here otherwise everywhere would be a mess.

Social media regulation just like Seun had in mind for nairaland would bring a sense of SANITY to Nigeria and Nigerians otherwise everywhere would be mess as anybody can wake up, cook up a story and decide to share it to everyone despite it being a lie. Thus creating conflict and chaos over such a lie

Now i will ask you a very simple question.

IS SEUN RIGHT OR WRONG FOR CREATING THESE RULES ON A SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM WHICH IS MEANT TO PROMOTE FREEDOM OF SPEECH?

You need to also read from this link to see what other countries we "look up to" as it were are doing to regulate social media in their countries. Nigeria must do same otherwise we will be our own downfall.

https://www.nairaland.com/5574366/why-social-media-needs-regulation#84791330

QueenAddyRealty:




A ban from nairaland is hardly life-altering, and certainly not physically inconvenient. Imagine, someone like NwaAmaikpe getting locked up for his eccentric comments. This is what you are supporting. Nairaland could well ban him but asking that he be shipped off to detention somewhere is a bit extreme.

This is just my opinion, though