Social media to have office or they be shut down

[RV Pundit]

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[Kadudu]

We will meet in court. The directive will be thrown out. Ruto should stop these roadside declarations. He and his henchmen should think twice before opening their mouths.

[patel]

They will have to shut down the internet. Social media shut down will only push them underground. Kenya kwanza has completely lost this war.

[gout]

These sickos are not that clever.

TikTok users in the US are migrating to a Chinese app called RedNote with the threat of a ban just days away.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2475l7zpqyo

[sema]

Huh?

These companies are based in California. I’m confused by this utter stupidity. Like? Huh?

Also, with starlink now everywhere how will they stop people from going online??

They’re clearly worried about the 2027 election

[RV Pundit]

The court already ruled that wakina Facebook are usable in Kenya

[sema]

The court already ruled that wakina Facebook are usable in Kenya

Ruto needs smarter advisors. He needs to stop relying on illiterate village clowns like Oscar Sudi and Farouk Kibet.  The other clown is Felix Kosgei. What is going on with your Kalenjin people pundit? They're shocking me with their village backwardness.  Uhuru Kenyatta was a drunkard yes, but I think his exposure (British private schools, college in the US) helped him and I think he surrounded himself with people of the same background because he could not relate to kenyans from the village.

And I'm asking this question with all seriousness. The Kalenjins around Ruto are shocking me with their backwardness.

[Nefertiti]

Technically it's easy-peasy to shutdown. Legally not so easy, Ruto will have to pass a new law, which will be contested all the way to SCORK.

On my part I support responsibility for content be shared between the user and the platform. The way X is being held to the fire in Brazil, Aussie and EU should apply in Kenya or Africa.

The question of what content is abusive and therefore illegal must be debated very carefully to guard against abuse by GenZ and GoK. The latter has a mile-long history of abusing freedom of expression and protest. Just a few years ago in Jubilee 1.0 they attempted to muzzle journalists and offensive clauses in the media law were struck out by the courts.

For instance posting Ruto in a caskette is a personal libel he should go to court and sue his detractors there. His massive presidential ego is not a national interest. Biden and Netanyahu are caricatured as vampires all the time and noone loses sleep. Incitement to violence on the other hand is a serious offence that should result in hefty fines and/or imprisonment.

What X and social media companies must be forced to do is VERIFY all users on the platforms. Like CA did to telco simcards to tame Al Shabaab despite their resistance. If someone libels you X or TikTok cannot claim not to know the account owner otherwise they should be fined heavily.

[gout]

The first Mr eat your cake and have it

In a sign of the cases’ significance, Kenya’s president William Ruto waded into the debate on Monday. At a town hall event in Nairobi, Ruto said he was preparing to sign a bill into law that he claimed would prevent outsourcing companies from being sued in Kenya in the future. “Those people were taken to court, and they had real trouble,” Ruto said, referring to Sama, the outsourcing company that directly employed the Facebook content moderators. “They really bothered me. Now I can report to you that we have changed the law, so nobody will take you to court again on any matter.” Ruto said Sama had planned to relocate to Uganda “because many of us were giving them trouble.” And he cast the change to the law as an effort to make Kenya a more attractive location for outsourcing companies, similar to India or the Philippines, in order to bring much-needed jobs to the country.

https://time.com/7201516/kenya-president-meta-lawsuits/

[Nefertiti]

😊

Ruto and his corterie of Lotodos Sudis cannot convince anyone that being insulted on social media is not democratic per for the course. Biden or Trump is not covered by any special law and would have to personally sue thousands of critics for Gaza caricatures, etc. The abductions in Kenya are because the cases would promptly be thrown out in court.

The first Mr eat your cake and have it

In a sign of the cases’ significance, Kenya’s president William Ruto waded into the debate on Monday. At a town hall event in Nairobi, Ruto said he was preparing to sign a bill into law that he claimed would prevent outsourcing companies from being sued in Kenya in the future. “Those people were taken to court, and they had real trouble,” Ruto said, referring to Sama, the outsourcing company that directly employed the Facebook content moderators. “They really bothered me. Now I can report to you that we have changed the law, so nobody will take you to court again on any matter.” Ruto said Sama had planned to relocate to Uganda “because many of us were giving them trouble.” And he cast the change to the law as an effort to make Kenya a more attractive location for outsourcing companies, similar to India or the Philippines, in order to bring much-needed jobs to the country.

https://time.com/7201516/kenya-president-meta-lawsuits/

[Georgesoros]

In all fairness guys, Brazil recently had a fight with Musk about physical presence.