Social Media Expense: To Just Post Anything Is Unacceptable– Keyamo

Keyamo mentioned this in a series of tweets on Monday in response to the proposition of the Social network Costs by the National Assembly.
He took a swipe at those condemning the bill and asked to unclog and apologise to those who irritated them with insults.
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Although the minister did not support the death sentence for hate speech, he firmly insisted that publishing false information on social networks threatened for the nation.
He stressed that there must be some chastening effects for those who deliberately go online to publish false stories under the umbrella of flexibility of speech.
The Social Media Expense has actually sparked blended reactions from individuals and groups within and outside Nigeria.
Check out Keyamo’s tweets listed below:
Those so-called over night Social network ‘activists’ who oppose the Social Media Costs need to initially stop obstructing those who aggravate them with insults, unclog all those they have actually blocked and apologise to them. You can’t be intolerant and ask others to be. Practice what you preach.
— Festus Keyamo, SAN (@fkeyamo) December 2, 2019
Some can not separate the Social Media Expense from the Hate Speech Bill. Whilst no reasonable person will support death sentence for hate speech, you can’t come online to state something absolutely incorrect that can put other lives in danger without some type of penal repercussion
— Festus Keyamo, SAN (@fkeyamo) December 2, 2019
The genuine agitation must be for Parliament, in line with S. 36( 12) of the 1999 Constitution, to clearly define the TYPES of incorrect & & insensitive posts that would attract penal repercussions, so that govt doesn’t abuse it. But to leave everyone to simply post ANYTHING is inappropriate
— Festus Keyamo, SAN (@fkeyamo) December 2, 2019
Civil suits on Libel of character just take care of PERSONAL INSULTS. I don’t sign up for penalty for that. However you can not come online to deliberately post incorrect stories, in the guise of ‘flexibility of speech’, that can set the nation ablaze without some penal effects
— Festus Keyamo, SAN (@fkeyamo) December 2, 2019
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