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Oct 28 • 9 tweets • 5 min read
.@elonmusk

#DearElon

1/ The voice of 150+ million people in East Africa is being actively censored by @Twitter. Over the past yr prominent voices have been deplatformed & many others shadow banned. Twitter even went to the extent of banning the trending section for the region!
2/ The global digital town square you envision @Twitter has been a distant dream for us. Twitter has been actively discouraging plurality of thought in the region by suppressing one narrative while promoting another, aligned with interests of certain powerful countries.
3/ Suppression forces ideas underground; makes them more violent by taking away the moderating effect of moderate voices. It fans the flames disinformation. It makes people more paranoid and less tolerant of opposing view points.
4/ Truth does not come about through suppression, it comes about through exposure to multiple points of view & through challenge of our dearly held beliefs.
5/ Rather than providing an alternative to the corrupt MSM & be voice to ordinary citizens of the region who can never dream of influencing the mainstream narrative, @Twitter actually colluded with the MSM & their sponsors in maintaining the narrative hegemony of the powerful.
6/ Instead of providing a platform for dissenting voices, @Twitter became one more platform of the MSM. It gave disproportionate power to so called journalists who never walked a minute in our shoe to to distort our stories while we watch on helplessly from the sidelines.
7/ As we speak this platform is still being used to manufacture consent to economically annihilate #Ethiopia, a country of 120 million people. As we speak thousands are dying in a battlefield that is online as much as on the ground.
8/ @elonmusk we ask @twitter under your leadership, to unmuzzle the people of #Ethiopia, #Eritrea & #Somalia. Give us a platform to express our wildly different truths, to argue & disagree with each other as long as we adhere to the rules of the platform.
9/ Fellow East Africans on Twitter, please join me in this #DearElon campaign, to respectfully ask @elonmusk to #SetTheBirdFreeInEastAfrica.

In your #DearElon, tweets please include specific instances of twitter censorship you've faced or witnessed. Also, tag @elonmusk!

Peace!

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