January 19, 2021
Uganda has moved to clamp down on social media use in the country even as its diplomatic relations with the US have taken a bad turn after a tense and disputed election.
On Monday (Jan. 18), internet services were restored after a shutdown imposed just ahead of polls opening on Jan. 14 but the ban on social media, which was originally imposed on Jan. 13, has remained in place. Only Ugandans with virtual private networks (VPNs) that haven’t already been blocked are currently able to access social media.
The concern now is that regulators have issued an indefinite ban on social media platforms. Some of the affected platforms include Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram, Skype, and Zoom. App distribution platforms iOS AppStore and Google PlayStore also remain blocked which means users without VPNs cannot download to log on to social media.
it s distress. as a mother it s hard to sit your child down to help them understand. all i can do is some from a place of love and give them a sense of hope. there are more of us than of them, meaning more people that are coming from a place of respect and equality and justice. and if they truly believe that, then they ll feel a little more safer in our country. the president condemned the attack but he has not yet given a direct message to muslims in the united states or around the world. you just heard ambassador brown talk about that. he has. he s talked about standing with our muslim brothers and sisters in his words. do you think president trump needs to make such a gesture? absolutely. ambassador brown is doing what he needs to do, but he needs to understand president donald j. trump is the most powerful man in the world right now. he s in a position, president of the united states. he from the oval office, from
we ve got people targeted from all forms of all over the country right now. it s distress. as a mother it s hard to sit your child down to help them understand. all i can do is come from a place of love and give them a sense of hope. there are more of us than of them, meaning more people that are coming from a place of respect and equality and justice. and if they truly believe that, then they ll feel a little more safer in our country. the president condemned the attack, but he has not yet given a direct message to muslims in the united states or around the world. you just heard ambassador brown talk about that. he has. he s talked about standing with our muslim brothers and sisters, in his words. do you think president trump needs to make such a gesture? absolutely. ambassador brown is doing what he needs to do, but he needs to understand president donald j. trump is the most powerful man in the world right now. he s in a position, president of
is an extremist of the worst kind who could walk into two mosques and without any care whatsoever kill people. i don t give any credibility to it. i m not going to read it. i encourage others not to read it. i m not going to give him the time of day. i hope as quickly as possible they can find a way to get this guy convicted and lock him up and throw away the key. that s how i feel. and i think a lot of new zealanders feel the same way. ambassador brown, thank you for your time and leadership in new zealand in conveying the loss we all feel and the love that we re all sending to the new zealand community and specifically to the muslim community in new zealand. thank you for that. jake, thank you to you and your viewers and help start locally, reach out to your muslim brothers and sisters and push love over hate. that s the only way that s going to work. thank you very much for your time as well. in the wake of the horrific tragedy in new zealand,
have to combat hate and sexism and bigotry and anti-gay bias, you name it, we have to name it. we have to say it. we have to have that courage. and we cannot just resort to ilhan omar, she apologized and i think ended up by having a resolution to be against all forms of hate to see what then happened this week was the right thing to do. congresswoman love? this is years after representative omar made some comments too. look, all i have to say is, what is our responsibility in all this? i get so tired of the blame game, it s because of somebody else that we re doing this. when do we take responsibility for our own actions? when i was in high school, i remember teaching a swimming class. after six weeks of teaching this little boy, he looks at me and he says, i want you to know my parents don t like you because you re brown, but i do, you re my favorite teacher. what i realized in that moment is that racism isn t in your dna. it s taught. it s a nasty seed that grows and