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Re: António Guterres Worried By Unchecked Powers Of Twitter, Facebook, Others by Obc1234(m): 8:30am On Jan 29, 2021
Obc1234:
Wahala for who dey still use Facebook
For five months now I don't have Facebook app, Twitter app, Instagram app I only have and use YouTube, WhatsApp, nairaland Google and quora
I wish Nigerian government could imitate Chinese government and ban these nonsense
The world will be 20 times better if social networking is banned
It has made many youths to be useless, secondary School students don't read anymore
Making vagina people to be suffering erotomania because of number of people that woo them a day
No matter how beautiful you are 3 to 5 people can't woo in a day if you are the street but in Facebook 10 to 20 people in a day even if you are ugly as it's
There is this ugly girl that is doing all these arrogant for everyone only because she has a lot boyfriends on Facebook which I know that if they get to know her in real they will run for their lives
Re: António Guterres Worried By Unchecked Powers Of Twitter, Facebook, Others by Nobody: 8:30am On Jan 29, 2021
Stewart883:
We don't need communist here. I love what the tech companies are doing. This was how Hitler started world war2 in 1939. Thank God for censorship Trump would have done what Hitler did, inciting violence!
Are you fucking serious? You must be nuts if you can compare Trump to Hitler. What a shit load of rubbish.
Re: António Guterres Worried By Unchecked Powers Of Twitter, Facebook, Others by Offpoint1: 8:39am On Jan 29, 2021
saphiere:
For me, once I settled down, I'd discard all these platforms especially Facebook. They are all intruders.
I'd only stick with LinkedIn and YouTube. Facebook has been bastardized.
I'm very worried about what Facebook would dig from my old Facebook account and post to the world once I become the President of Nigeria. I don't trust them.

I can't tell the date and time due to uncertainty. And I'd have said by that time my posters would flood NL but I can't tell if I'd be on NL by then.

NL is part of the platforms I'd discard once I get married. NL has been compromised. The other time someone uploaded a pornography picture in the first page of a thread and that thread was on front page. I called the mods' attention but nothing was done about it.

Let me give you a hint.
Look out for a thick, dark skin Enugu thoroughbred lady. Average height with nose ring. Sarah Theophilus by name.
President of which country ma'am?
Re: António Guterres Worried By Unchecked Powers Of Twitter, Facebook, Others by toprealman: 8:41am On Jan 29, 2021
Oga mind your business. Don't be a D.Trump trying to regulate the temperature of hell!
Re: António Guterres Worried By Unchecked Powers Of Twitter, Facebook, Others by hardam003: 8:44am On Jan 29, 2021
I am so much in support of this, and this is because absolute freedom is also bound to be abused. There should therefore be some measure of rules to guide them no matter how little...
Re: António Guterres Worried By Unchecked Powers Of Twitter, Facebook, Others by Offpoint1: 8:44am On Jan 29, 2021
FLESHnBLOOD:
Facebook plants tracking cookies that monitor your browsing history and report it back to FB servers. This happens whenever you visit the websites with FB “Like” plugins, even if you don’t use FB, however if you do, this information is automatically matched with your FB profile. FB knows about your health issues, the medications you use, the relationship problems you have,the porn you like, forums you post on incognito, etc. Secondly
Whatever happens on FB servers, stays on FB servers. You can’t delete a pic uploaded to FB by mistake. It will show as “deleted” in your account, but Facebook officially confirmed it will stay on their servers indefinitely.Nothing like data privacy online anymore, Mark Zuckerberg knows to much, there is the video on youtube where he was asked qstns by a U.S senator bothering on this issues regarding data privacy and all that he was just blabbing.Omo this big tech companies needs to be seriously regulated its nothing a joking matter.
Are you worried about Facebook? You should be worried about Google as long as you're using gadgets...

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Re: António Guterres Worried By Unchecked Powers Of Twitter, Facebook, Others by sammysmiles(m): 8:48am On Jan 29, 2021
Providence2020:
In a few years the massive censorship that'll occur will make Stalin scream in shock. It's already happening, youtube, twitter and fb are actively suppressing free speech and independent thought. An agenda is being pushed and it's crazy because the masses are too busy with tiktok to see their rights eroding.
And when you post anything against their community acceptance, they will say fact checkers have considered this post invalid and hence blocked.... Who are this fact checkers? How come they only block a certain set of people? Imagine more than 23 people died in Norway after taking the covid-19 vaccine.... Yet anyone that post it will be blocked.... Some aged people developed paralysis after taking the vaccine, yet you post it on social media, they block you... Imagine the Nonsense..

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Re: António Guterres Worried By Unchecked Powers Of Twitter, Facebook, Others by superior1: 8:53am On Jan 29, 2021
Starzo:

are there any "good" politicians??

Good politician is a politician who is good at politicking not necessarily of a good virtue.
Re: António Guterres Worried By Unchecked Powers Of Twitter, Facebook, Others by MacMkboy(m): 8:54am On Jan 29, 2021
FLESHnBLOOD:
Facebook plants tracking cookies that monitor your browsing history and report it back to FB servers. This happens whenever you visit the websites with FB “Like” plugins, even if you don’t use FB, however if you do, this information is automatically matched with your FB profile. FB knows about your health issues, the medications you use, the relationship problems you have,the porn you like, forums you post on incognito, etc. Secondly
Whatever happens on FB servers, stays on FB servers. You can’t delete a pic uploaded to FB by mistake. It will show as “deleted” in your account, but Facebook officially confirmed it will stay on their servers indefinitely.
Nothing like data privacy online anymore, Mark Zuckerberg knows to much, there is the video on youtube where he was asked qstns by a U.S senator bothering on this issues regarding data privacy and all that he was just blabbing.Omo this big tech companies needs to be seriously regulated its nothing a joking matter.
True @bolded. I had a friend whom I used to chat with a long time ago. She deleted her old account and left Facebook. If I search for her, I can't find her. Two years ago, I downloaded a very old version of Facebook messenger and to my surprise, I saw all the old messages between us.

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Re: António Guterres Worried By Unchecked Powers Of Twitter, Facebook, Others by NdigboWorldwide: 9:06am On Jan 29, 2021
saphiere:
For me, once I settled down, I'd discard all these platforms especially Facebook. They are all intruders.
I'd only stick with LinkedIn and YouTube. Facebook has been bastardized.
I'm very worried about what Facebook would dig from my old Facebook account and post to the world once I become the President of Nigeria. I don't trust them.

I can't tell the date and time due to uncertainty. And I'd have said by that time my posters would flood NL but I can't tell if I'd be on NL by then.

NL is part of the platforms I'd discard once I get married. NL has been compromised. The other time someone uploaded a pornography picture in the first page of a thread and that thread was on front page. I called the mods' attention but nothing was done about it.

Let me give you a hint.
Look out for a thick, dark skin Enugu thoroughbred lady. Average height with nose ring. Sarah Theophilus by name.

Cracking up in Quarantine.
Re: António Guterres Worried By Unchecked Powers Of Twitter, Facebook, Others by FBIBOT(m): 9:22am On Jan 29, 2021
Lol na too much gragra dey worry Facebook and Twitter... Imagine Google.. Silent and steady snake... If people know the amount of data mined by Google some people will stop using Android more reason the rich folks use no internet basic phones for business calls... These guys are getting more powerful than the government... They know you than you know yourselves grin

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Re: António Guterres Worried By Unchecked Powers Of Twitter, Facebook, Others by FBIBOT(m): 9:25am On Jan 29, 2021
sammysmiles:
And when you post anything against their community acceptance, they will say fact checkers have considered this post invalid and hence blocked.... Who are this fact checkers? How come they only block a certain set of people? Imagine more than 23 people died in Norway after taking the covid-19 vaccine.... Yet anyone that post it will be blocked.... Some aged people developed paralysis after taking the vaccine, yet you post it on social media, they block you... Imagine the Nonsense..

That's how they blocked my blog page... I made a post on my blog about Covid-19 since my blog and page are in sync... They flag it as being against their standards.... Which standard? Na only you Sabi correct information?
Re: António Guterres Worried By Unchecked Powers Of Twitter, Facebook, Others by Izongdave(m): 9:31am On Jan 29, 2021
I've simply abandoned my Facebook and twitter accounts since that event, For my Instagram it simply disappeared without trace and I was never warned of any rule flouting. If that could happen to a seating president of the most powerful nation in the world, who knows me?

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Re: António Guterres Worried By Unchecked Powers Of Twitter, Facebook, Others by chachanga: 10:04am On Jan 29, 2021
philpwresh:
See an example of Censorship that killed a lot of people just because they wanted to remove trump.
YouTube, Twitter, Facebook barred discussion on HCQ Chloroquine as treatment of Covid, but now that trump Is gone, they have started back tracking.

Terrible people, the whole leftist global media enterprise. They're so good at playing White Knight with their black hearts.

Whichever way the axe falls now, it's gonna be at a massive cost to the masses of the world. Mostly, it might end UN and its cronies gain more State power over free speech while countries like China, North Korea etc are busy giving us the middle finger and the gullible masses too are brainwashed to help bring down pro-privacy based projects like Telegram etc.

The way-forward now will be open-source and blockchain based messaging and social media projects. Those will be a bit harder for Govt to police. But, the fact is that Jack, Mark and the other nerdy knuckleheads haven't done well for free speech in the big scheme eventually.

MacMkboy:

True @bolded. I had a friend whom I used to chat with a long time ago. She deleted her old account and left Facebook. If I search for her, I can't find her. Two years ago, I downloaded a very old version of Facebook messenger and to my surprise, I saw all the old messages between us.
That Mark's a pervy egotist. And it's written all over his apps and corporate culture. To me, the entire company should be taken apart with Mark as far away from its daily runnings and its policy formulation as possible. But how possible will that be with his close ties to the American Intelligence Community?
The US cries foul at every turn and everyone for attempting to replicate the ills they're best at perpetrating.
With the way Facebook and Whatsapp are going, won't they become instruments of international and corporate espionage very soon?

sammysmiles:
And when you post anything against their community acceptance, they will say fact checkers have considered this post invalid and hence blocked.... Who are this fact checkers? How come they only block a certain set of people? Imagine more than 23 people died in Norway after taking the covid-19 vaccine.... Yet anyone that post it will be blocked.... Some aged people developed paralysis after taking the vaccine, yet you post it on social media, they block you... Imagine the Nonsense..
They have an agenda. The average person on the street works in the favor being largely ignorant of how things work behind the scenes.
Re: António Guterres Worried By Unchecked Powers Of Twitter, Facebook, Others by todugo(m): 10:15am On Jan 29, 2021
awhybliss:
They will control what we hear, believe and even tell the world what dey want us to know without we having option
Only the gullible will believe not me
Re: António Guterres Worried By Unchecked Powers Of Twitter, Facebook, Others by Blazebond(m): 10:19am On Jan 29, 2021
You guys aint seen nothing yet.
Re: António Guterres Worried By Unchecked Powers Of Twitter, Facebook, Others by tonididdy(m): 10:19am On Jan 29, 2021
inoki247:
At least before they can block someone they have to get a court order to du dat not just wake up give someone blocking like say na dere kid dem carry put for d platform....
They are all free platform with terms and conditions you do not read, neither do I... So yes they have the power to block and unblock as long as you willingly accepted there T&Cs
Re: António Guterres Worried By Unchecked Powers Of Twitter, Facebook, Others by Iamthoney(m): 10:25am On Jan 29, 2021
Na that Facebook own dey pain me pass. Them go bring people you may know come for my page, if I try add them go decline my request they yarn me shit like “Do you know what people you may know is?” What the fvck? Why una go bring them come in the first place when una know say I no fit friend request them?
Re: António Guterres Worried By Unchecked Powers Of Twitter, Facebook, Others by Ayo2004: 10:38am On Jan 29, 2021
How that one take affect the price of ororo? grin
Re: António Guterres Worried By Unchecked Powers Of Twitter, Facebook, Others by Mccullum: 10:42am On Jan 29, 2021
It is responsibility of all the social medias users to know type of thinks they'll be posting there, as your posts can be use in favor/disfavor of you in future.
Re: António Guterres Worried By Unchecked Powers Of Twitter, Facebook, Others by pacespot(m): 10:49am On Jan 29, 2021
So are they concerned about the unchecked powers of social media platforms because they banned Trump or because of other more important issues. It becomes a matter of urgency because it is Trump that is affected, when the same Trump used Facebook to unleach series of smare campaigns against Clinton in 2016 nobody talked about the unchecked powers of social media.

The best way to kill these tech giants is to put their operations in the hands of government. These companies are successful because they are profit-driven, highly competitive and efficiently run.
Re: António Guterres Worried By Unchecked Powers Of Twitter, Facebook, Others by sammysmiles(m): 11:05am On Jan 29, 2021
FBIBOT:


That's how they blocked my blog page... I made a post on my blog about Covid-19 since my blog and page are in sync... They flag it as being against their standards.... Which standard? Na only you Sabi correct information?
E tire me oooo.... Even the propagators in the fore front, of this covid-19 scamdemic.... the likes of Bill gates,,,, have no medical experience nor went to medical school.... Yet they are the propagators...
Re: António Guterres Worried By Unchecked Powers Of Twitter, Facebook, Others by AllHailBiafra(m): 11:05am On Jan 29, 2021
Over 10 million users already on Signal. What's app already on their way to hell. The app is highly secured that dss or any government can't trace your information, data or communication through the app.
Re: António Guterres Worried By Unchecked Powers Of Twitter, Facebook, Others by Nobody: 11:17am On Jan 29, 2021
Providence2020:
Silicon Valley Billionaires are way too powerful right now. Any sensible government should be worried and should enact legislation to check and regulate their excesses. Anybody who supports the Trump ban should check back in a few years, you'll see how bold their actions will only continue to get.
Joe Biden is Mark and Jack's boy. Mark Zuckerberg donated over 600m to the Biden campaign and Twitter helped by banning Hunter Biden's laptop story. Facebook and Twitter currently own the whole world. There is absolutely nothing anyone can do about it. Republicans senators are balless fools. All they did throughout 4 years was summon these billionaires and nag, yell and whine without doing anything.

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Re: António Guterres Worried By Unchecked Powers Of Twitter, Facebook, Others by Providence2020(m): 11:20am On Jan 29, 2021
Nuel4:
Joe Biden is Mark and Jack's boy. Mark Zuckerberg donated over 600m to the Biden campaign and Twitter helped by banning Hunter Biden's laptop story. Facebook and Twitter currently own the whole world. There is absolutely nothing anyone can do about it. Republicans senators are balless fools. All they did throughout 4 years was summon these billionaires and nag, yell and whine without doing anything.
I swear Republicans are pussies. With congress blue, biden and harris will have complete control for decades
Re: António Guterres Worried By Unchecked Powers Of Twitter, Facebook, Others by thatigboman: 11:28am On Jan 29, 2021
Twitter especially. Thunder fire the fools for banning me permanently
Re: António Guterres Worried By Unchecked Powers Of Twitter, Facebook, Others by ChevKing(m): 12:09pm On Jan 29, 2021
powerfulguy:
undecided
https://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2021/01/29/un-chief-worried-by-unchecked-powers-of-twitter-facebook-others/

The UN Chief has spoken sense, remember when the German Chancellor Merkel expressed the same issue of Twitter banning a sitting President, this needs to be check quickly, if not checked here is my prediction; this would give rise to other alternatives with flexible policies on offensive statements.
The are only kings because they provide the platform , once there are alternatives they would go down. Watch out for Signal and Telegram competing with WhatsApp.
Re: António Guterres Worried By Unchecked Powers Of Twitter, Facebook, Others by Sprumbaba: 2:45pm On Jan 29, 2021
ec0malchemist:
Most of these big tech companies are third eye gods, they subconsciously dictate world affairs without you even knowing.

Let me teach you how to import gadgets from US and sell here in Nigeria with offer up and letgo accounts for free

Nothing to teach. Let me teach you how to buy from Jumia
Re: António Guterres Worried By Unchecked Powers Of Twitter, Facebook, Others by FLYFIRE(m): 3:07pm On Jan 29, 2021
Here is the power. Mark does not own Facebook, only a front. All that story of how a nerdy young school boy launched into the unknown with a few friends are all LIES.

Re: António Guterres Worried By Unchecked Powers Of Twitter, Facebook, Others by Coinbased: 3:58pm On Jan 29, 2021
Hmmm
Re: António Guterres Worried By Unchecked Powers Of Twitter, Facebook, Others by Slimpotter(m): 5:54pm On Jan 29, 2021
tobstarizhia:

That sounds like something the Chinese government would say, not the UN. Are you sure this guy isn't some communist?
And what's wrong with being a Communist?

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