From the point of view of a European living in America the #ENDSARS protests looked very similarly motivated as the #BLM protests in America and Europe. #BLM got their own emoji, so why wouldn’t #ENDSARS?
Speaking as a Nigerian, somehow I'm not quite sure we're thought of as real communities with real people living real lives and not just a vague political blob on a map.
You also see this in many people's inability to mentally separate a government from its citizens - they themselves know that they don't fully agree with everything their own governments do (even the ones they like), but other places get treated as monoliths whose governments' actions and opinions are obviously completely representative and in the best interests of the whole.
The government whose action you're commending quite literally has a history of arresting & detaining its critics, extorting & sometimes murdering its citizens in the street, supporting blasphemy laws, and blocking content and even financial transactions that it deems dissident (and those blocks are implemented with such a wide brush that plenty of completely unrelated sites often get caught in the net).
But of course, the real censorship is when a foreign social media platform that's used by a few percent of the population at maximum takes down a post.
It's always funny to see people cosplay at caring about censorship by...jumping to support the first actual authoritarian in sight.
And all that's beside the fact that this had nothing whatsoever to do with elections.
> The government whose action you're commending quite literally has a history of arresting & detaining its critics, extorting & sometimes murdering its citizens in the street, supporting blasphemy laws, and blocking content and even financial transactions that it deems dissident (and those blocks are implemented with such a wide brush that plenty of completely unrelated sites often get caught in the net).
So has the US. Americans, and their mega corporations, have no moral high ground to lecture others.
> But of course, the real censorship is when a foreign social media platform that's used by a few percent of the population at maximum takes down a post.
Who elected Jack Dorsey and his band of far-left censors king? Twitter is a guest in every foreign country, as we're seeing play out.
> It's always funny to see people cosplay at caring about censorship by...jumping to support the first actual authoritarian in sight.
No. Rather the pot should refrain from calling the kettle black
> And all that's beside the fact that this had nothing whatsoever to do with elections.
Censoring politicians has everything to do with elections.
We are speaking of the platform that find it ok to ban a legally elected president because they disagreed with him politically. Twitter needs to be controlled more effectively to remain politically neutral, or they should register themselves as a political organization instead of pretending to be a business.