Twitter condemns Uganda for blocking social media apps

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Twitter is openly condemning internet service providers blocking social media apps in the run-up to an election in Uganda as it takes criticism for alleged censorship on its own platform.

“Ahead of the Ugandan election, we're hearing reports that Internet service providers are being ordered to block social media and messaging apps,” the social media giant posted in a statement on Tuesday.

“We strongly condemn internet shutdowns – they are hugely harmful, violate basic human rights and the principles of the #OpenInternet,” the statement continued.

I don’t believe in censorship, either.

Twitter doesn’t block most nutty conservatives and liberals, leftists, rightists around the world.

They blocked Trump because he’s spreading unequivocal BS, causing threats to US democratic institutions (I don’t mean just “Democratic”).

The weird thing is that Uganda's president, Yoweri Musaveni, in power since 1986, is far more authoritarian than Trump.