₦airaland Forum

mikeapollo:
Are these people serious?
So they want a UK or US - based blogger (for instance), to open physical offices in Nigeria so that they could harass them when they expose their corrupt and nefarious activities. Shame!
It wont happen. The internet is a ''virtual'' space.

No point lamenting or complaining, this is what's know as a toothless legislation. Totally unenforceable, just like their attempted ban on bitcoin or twitter. You need to keep in mind that most of these senile legislatures don't have the technical sophistication to even open their email inbox.

Basic123:
So TINUBU is the senate?
Or TINUBU is NED NWOKWO??



Una Just mad in this country sha

What's the difference are they not both thieves
How much Dem pay u for support wey no go finish?

So they have a physical location, so they can easily be arrested and the building seized and locked up should they post rubbish🤣

Appletek:
Imagine you're Gistlover's landlord

Or Instablog

adioolayi:
It's necessary...

You can't hide behind key pad ..cook cock and bull stories for likes and shares .. falsehood you deliberately cooked to sell stories..na..

There should be an avenue to take responsibilities

But kidnappers are hiding in the bush with hostages and you think bloggers hiding behind key pad should be your priority as well as that of the senators.

are the senators accountable to nigerians?

should that not be the priority?

are they taking part of the responsibility for bad governance and for not properly supervising the executive but being a rubber stamp to the executive?

fergie001:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khtxxgaup0I

Useless set of people...always majoring on minor

All the social media companies will ignore it. Unless T-Pain wants these social media companies to report him to BIG DADDY DONALD TRUMP.

All this one end for demand notices wey no dey finish from government

What do you expect from an assembly that thinks porn site is the cause of infidelity....lols

To censor the internet and freedom of speech will not work

bosschinalu:
Oh, so now they want social media platforms to have physical offices in Nigeria? Is that really the battle we should be fighting, Senator Nwoko? While we, the youth, are starving for jobs, opportunities, and meaningful reforms, they’re busy chasing shadows, chasing after foreign companies who don’t care about our poverty or broken systems.

Where are the policies that tackle unemployment?

Where is the bill that addresses the abysmally low minimum wage?


You want accountability, Senator? How about accountability from our government for the billions being wasted on ‘phantom’ projects and the resources we continue to mismanage while our youth are struggling? You talk about economic losses, but the real loss here is the brain drain—our best minds fleeing to places that at least offer decent opportunities while we remain stuck in endless bureaucratic bottlenecks.




You want blogs to have offices in Abuja ? More paperwork, more bureaucracy, more of the same system that has crushed creativity and entrepreneurship. You’ve seen the power of social media in giving Nigerians, especially the youth, a platform to speak, to earn, to create. Instead of using this bill to stifle free expression, why not focus on making this country a place where the youth can thrive without being oppressed by these never-ending laws that only serve to make the already powerful even more untouchable?



Enough of the distractions! The real battle is for a better Nigeria, not one where social media offices are the priority.

guy it makes sense

Before u post rubbish to generate traffic u will think twice cos your location is known

This people are not serious 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

They simply want bloggers to know they are liable for whatever they post out there

The government is not smart!

Assassinate 10-15 of them and the rest will keep mute for life.

Few reasons I love Putin. People would have be falling from staircase and out of windows.

Gadafii:
Gistlover right now

Dem want bloggers to have physical address so that they can always have them arrested or shutdown when ever they post their leaks and secrets, EG akpabs and his sugar babies

Very anyhow legislature, meanwhile no bill to protect farmers from Fulani herdsman

u don't even know d power of fake news

With the unrest going on in d south east, someone can just post a news that kanu is dead with some gibberish n many will believe n start causing chaos

Many of u don't even know the long term implications of what u oppose

The bill should be thrown out.

lexy2014:
But kidnappers are hiding in the bush with hostages and you think bloggers hiding behind key pad should be your priority as well as that of the senators.

are the senators accountable to nigerians?

should that not be the priority?

are they taking part of the responsibility for bad governance and for not properly supervising the executive but being a rubber stamp to the executive?

Deliberate falsehood is a crime. Just like kidnappers are criminals.

Government should crack down on every form of criminality

HedgesTV:
Is this really among the top 1000 pressing concerns for n Nigeria ? Na people like you dey enable our oppressors. Tufikwa

You are just one person, it affects the nation not you, stop being always selfish, and you are either naive or pretending if you can't see the distraction and dangers of careless blogging.

And the offices would be next to an army barracks or police station.

Mad people full for senate

occfx:
What happens to database, what happens to your useless NIN and BVNs. Sharing country with low thinking people is the worst thing that has happened to humanity.

You have a point...but if they feel they are limiting, and this method will be easier for them...the point is to crackdown on all forms of criminality

PlanetZero:
It is called blog. Blog don't need physical office

Okay. I am in support of anything to regulate their activities

That means nairaland posters and commenters will soon have office too.
.............hmmm just to cow freedom of speech.

They need a place they can come to arrest you

Good development...

Since they have nothing meaningful to do they fiddle while Rome burns.

fergie001:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khtxxgaup0I

How u wan take limit air...blogging has no boundaries

adioolayi:
You have a point...but if they feel they are limiting, and this method will be easier for them...the point is to crackdown on all forms of criminality

You cannot crack down on all forms of criminality. You can only reduce it to barest minimum.

fergie001:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khtxxgaup0I

On first read , I was like what the heck are these buffoons up to but putting on a security analyst hat . It’s important to know where the data engineered / mined is being kept .
There are two main Data protection laws
GDPR and Soc
GDPR is for Europe and Soc states.

Where is all the data from all 53 African states stored ?
When you create a M365 account in Lagos where is the data stored ?
According to the Internet there are no data locations in Africa. Any tenant in Lagos has data stored in US.
The same will go for Facebook, Instagram , Tik tok etc. all the data you upload goes to servers in the states. Which should not be so . Create micro regions where Data is stored . If not Nigeria then Ghana which has a better political climate for data for west African countries. South Africa for South . Kenya for east and north could stay in EMEA .
I am not sure demanding is the way to go because if they say no . Then what is next … people would just use VPN to connect to these services to upload content .
Anyways my 2 cents

Good they must have physical officer they lies too much and creating unecessary problem for people.

Get office or quit blogging though this is not what I expect National assembly to sweat over because there are numerous pressing issues pressing our necks right now in Nigeria.

fergie001:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khtxxgaup0I

Tiktokers too o.

Yugoslavia247:
Tinubu government is worst than Buhari.

Make i no lie.

Do they know the meaning of the word blog.

Blog no be tv or newspaper.

It is digital and asking them to have physical office then you can arrest them at will.


Those supporting Tinubu govt will one day discover that they are victims are not friends of oppressors.

Senator Ned, a senator elected same way Tinubu was elected is sponsoring the bill, this senator is not under Tinubu, under seperation of powers, Tinubu has no right or oversight over him. Please speak reasonably, this has nothing to do with 'tinubu government'.

adioolayi:
It's necessary...

You can't hide behind key pad ..cook cock and bull stories for likes and shares .. falsehood you deliberately cooked to sell stories..na..

There should be an avenue to take responsibilities

can a blogger based in US, UK or Canada also open shop in Nigeria