jchioma:


2baba. He's found his voice at last. Nice. Anyway, a ban or even regulation of the SM space will spell doom for any government in Nigeria,

1) The people are woke

2) It may spiral into another round of protests, such that the govt cannot handle.

3) It will be counterproductive to any gain the country has made in the path of democracy.

penplus:
What is he saying?

Fuckingmallam45:
From time memorial, many media people like to believe that they are the pillar of the society that holds the government responsible. However, if they want to do the check and balance on the government, who was it that kept them in turn, check and balanced, for their own action? Basically no one.

News outlet only answers to the demand of the consumers and their own political aspirations, which is why there were and still are so much widespread use of sensational reporting and falsified information for perhaps as early as the invention of the writing system itself. Pen is indeed mightier than the sword. You can literally murder not just one but an entire race of people with just a few lines of inciting report, yet there's a heavy restriction on weapon ownership but not media reporting, don't you think that kind of strange?

While I agree that the government total control on media reports is potentially dystopic and may allow them to avoid their own responsibility. There's still something that the government can do that can put the media outlet in check without affecting too much of their reporting freedom.

I personally prefer some form of content rating that helps people distinguished fact-based from opinion reports. Some major media outlets already have this in place, I would love to see the government involvement in giving a more detailed definition of what is fact and what is an opinion and enforcing the system on the national level. They could even go further to require news outlet to further classify their content based on source i.e. “verified sources”, “not verified sources” “official sources, etc. And introduce some heavy punishment to the none-compliance.

There are more calls today for the regulation of social media but I personally don't think that is necessary (if even possible.) Social media by principle is a system of semi-professional reporting at best, everyone should already know not to take one seriously (if not backed by a licensed news outlet.) It is when the major news outlet starts to copy the social media style of semi-responsible reporting (or even outright referencing a social media source) that we started having a problem.

IgboSomalia:
They should block foreign apps for local apps to grow. His name is not Innocent Idibia, it must be Illiterate Idibia.

Fuckingmallam45:
From time memorial, many media people like to believe that they are the pillar of the society that holds the government responsible. However, if they want to do the their own political aspirations, which is why there were and still are so much widespread use of sensational reporting and falsified information for perhaps as early as the invention of the writing system itself. Pen is indeed mightier than the sword. You can literally murder not just one but an entire race of people with just a few lines of inciting report, yet there's a heavy restriction on weapon ownership but not media reporting, don't you think that kind of strange?

While I agree that the government total control on mediace) that we started having a problem.

thebosstrevor1:


This is how you fail exam, how does it relate with the topic of discussion.

This is a prove, people just read headlines and form opinions.

You didn't watch the video but went on to write something irrelevant with the topic of discussion

Fahdiga:
I can smell desperation from 2baba to make up for his cowardice past but it is a welcome development. this devilish regime won't succeed in gagging us

thebosstrevor1:
Actually he is right.

Misleading headline.

Nigerian government can help in improving indigenous tech companies.

[s]If Twitter, Facebook and the rest are banned, if will make indigenous tech companies and developers grow. They can provide their own app with less competitive from foreign companies[/s]

Another issue is where to host the server to protect user's data.

I believe Nigerian should try to invest in server farms, it will help Nigerian companies in protecting their data at home.

thebosstrevor1:
Actually he is right.

Misleading headline.

Nigerian government can help in improving indigenous tech companies.

If Twitter, Facebook and the rest are banned, if will make indigenous tech companies and developers grow. They can provide their own app with less competitive from foreign companies

Another issue is where to host the server to protect user's data.

I believe Nigerian should try to invest in server farms, it will help Nigerian companies in protecting their data at home.