They took our freedom, took our peace now they want to take our voice.
Nigerians react over government decision to regulate social media.
The proposal from the minister of information and culture Lai Mohammed over regulation of post on social media is of whose benefit let find out.
The minister of information and culture, Lai Mohammed on his speech on Tuesday, said that Nigeria is not safe regarding the issue of fake news and there is urgent need for the government to regulate the social media space.
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Now Nigerian's youth is not taking the speech lightly, as they say, the government is trying to deprive them of their right to speech.
Many of the youth has taking to social media to express there feelings, this are the complaints made on twitter by some youths.
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see tweet from Eno:
"They took our money, our freedom, our jobs, our peace and now they are unto taking our voice.
Tweet by Stella Damascus
" But come to think of it. Taking away social media is like taking away our right to open our mouth and speak. is that not a violation of human rights? is this not madness?Are you kidding me? And an educated person is supporting this foolery.
Nwaogu, in his speech said that what the youth are posting on social media is far from the truth.
Lai Mohammed is not asking to shut down the social media, he was only suggesting to regulate the social media.
To regulate the social media does not mean taking away ones right to speech, it simply means creating a law or principle that would guild whatever is to be on social media.
The principle via law is to be created in other to avoid fake news and miss information.
let review the ministers speech.
"I am not asking the government to shut down the social media space in the country, because the social media has come to stay.
Am only asking to have policy that regulates the social media and check fake news and misinformation".
Nwaogu added that Lai Mohammed was right over the regulation of social media in Nigeria. if only what he actually meant was talking about peolple faking news on social media.
he used the tweet as an example. Those tweet contradict what the minister was saying, I guess they didn't read the news nor listen to it on radio before posting that. They might have heard or seen, what they posted on social media
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Most of our youth nowadays, goes to social media to slander the country by posting what isn't happening and making the world belief Nigeria is worst and corrupt.
Let stop this act and build the country reputation.
Avoid the spread of fake news he said, but as youths we must continue to correct the government when they are wrong.
what is your say over the young man opinion leave a comment.
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