U.S. Republican elected officials, including Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, have praised the protesters calling them "heroes" and "patriots."
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It is important to situate the debate around the Nigerian government’s suspension of Twitter within the context of ongoing conversations between many countries and social media platforms. The hot topic of social media regulation is understandable because of the twin issues of disinformation (“fake news”) and dangerous speech (“hate speech”) but to avoid creating more problems in the name of solving same, every sensible country where these regulation conversations are happening has benefited from parliamentary oversight, judicial interpretation and citizen participation. Nigeria took a radically different approach with the Buhari-led government’s reckless action on June 4, 2021, when it ordered telecommunications companies and Internet Service Providers to cut off access to Twitter in the country.
Logan Lynn, an LGBTQ singer and musician, who has been harassed and bullied online for his provocative short film that accompanied his double album in 2019, said GLAAD s report is like an all-hands-on-deck call to arms that puts the platforms on notice. To have us all link arms and say enough is long past due, said Lynn, public relations director for .gay, a site that celebrates and supports the LGBTQ community. I m super moved that it s going to happen.
Rethinking digital advocacy
The U.S. view of social media platforms lags compared with European countries that regulate them, said Lucy Bernholz, director of the Digital Civil Society Lab at Stanford University and a member of the GLAAD report s advisory committee.
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Embed iframe src https://www.npr.org/player/embed/968710172/968827605 width 100% height 290 frameborder 0 scrolling no title NPR embedded audio player Facial recognition researcher Joy Buolamwini stands for a portrait behind a mask she had to use so that software could detect her face. Buolamwini s research has uncovered racial and gender bias in facial analysis tools sold by companies such as Amazon that have a hard time recognizing certain faces, especially darker-skinned women. Steven Senne/AP
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Facial recognition researcher Joy Buolamwini stands for a portrait behind a mask she had to use so that software could detect her face. Buolamwini s research has uncovered racial and gender bias in facial analysis tools sold by companies such as Amazon that have a hard time recognizing certain faces, especially darker-skinned women.