<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Glad to read your views on this issue, I must tell you that monitoring social media for anti - government rhetorics when the government, in particular, used the social media as a vital tool to their rise to power.<br><br></div>We have noticed gradual shift in their narratives from Social media bill by the Nigerian Senate <a href="https://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/05/senate-withdraws-frivolous-petitions-bill/">https://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/05/senate-withdraws-frivolous-petitions-bill/</a><br><br></div>to the use of the defamation law on the Internet <a href="http://www.thelawyerschronicle.com/defamation-and-the-internet/">http://www.thelawyerschronicle.com/defamation-and-the-internet/</a><br></div><div> Some weeks ago, the Vice President declared war on hate speech, what is hate speech? and Hate speech as terrorism.<br><a href="https://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/08/breaking-osinbajo-draws-line-hate-speech-says-will-treated-terrorism/">https://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/08/breaking-osinbajo-draws-line-hate-speech-says-will-treated-terrorism/</a><br><br></div><div>and finally, the military announcing their monitoring of social media for anti-government activities <a href="http://dailypost.ng/2017/08/23/nigerian-army-monitoring-anti-government-anti-military-speeches-social-media%E2%80%8E-spokesman/">http://dailypost.ng/2017/08/23/nigerian-army-monitoring-anti-government-anti-military-speeches-social-media%E2%80%8E-spokesman/</a><br><br></div><div>Read this also <br><a href="http://thenet.ng/2017/03/audu-maikori-faces-7-year-jail-term-found-guilty-inciting-public-southern-kaduna-killings/">http://thenet.ng/2017/03/audu-maikori-faces-7-year-jail-term-found-guilty-inciting-public-southern-kaduna-killings/</a><br></div><div><br><br></div><div>All of these is to push back on the opposition and dissenting voices which are vital ingredients for democracy.<br><br></div><div>Just to give context to the way I view these events. My resolution is we might be going for a massive surveillance regime that will suppress all forms of oppositions or activism.<br></div><div>As Nigerians have become vocal on social media and more engaging in governance, it is becoming tougher for government to contain the expression of the dissatisfaction of the citizenry. Government succeeded in curtailing bloggers, now they are coming after ordinary citizens on social media.<br><br></div><div>We need to brace up for the coming days!!!<br></div><div><br><br></div><div>These are my thoughts anyway.....hope they are not monitoring this email trail...😉<br></div><div>Benjamin<br></div><div><br><br></div><div><br><br><br></div><div><br><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Aug 27, 2017 at 3:16 PM, Seun Ojedeji <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:seun.ojedeji@gmail.com" target="_blank">seun.ojedeji@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Even though I think the military was intended more on bokoharam as target, it seem they didn't do a good job in communicating that clearly. Some civil society organisations are trying to counter the declaration by military. Here is one of such: <a href="https://www.channelstv.com/2017/08/27/order-military-to-stop-monitoring-nigerians-on-social-media-serap-tells-buhari/" target="_blank">https://www.channelstv.<wbr>com/2017/08/27/order-military-<wbr>to-stop-monitoring-nigerians-<wbr>on-social-media-serap-tells-<wbr>buhari/</a><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Regards<br><br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="auto">Sent from my mobile<br>Kindly excuse brevity and typos</div></div></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Aug 25, 2017 12:34 PM, "Akinremi Peter Taiwo" <<a href="mailto:compsoftnet@gmail.com" target="_blank">compsoftnet@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="m_-4588607829425430533quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>It's crystal clear that government does monitor communication lines and social media but the problem is the level of abuse to it. It is worrisome to see our president position on the use of social media and communication lines and the backwardness to the internet openness and inclusiveness in Nigeria.<br></div><div><br></div><div>The question that came to my mind after reading through is who are the anti-government, anti-military or anti-security? And what are the definition and scope of the military in tracking these people? We are very much aware that fake news is all over the media and social media platform but amidst the fake news, is there no genuine news that they called fake news?</div><div><br></div><div>It's very glaring that we will see innocent people being tracked down and tortured because of freedom of speech and digital right in Nigeria. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Regards.</div><div>Peter<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="m_-4588607829425430533elided-text"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 10:08 AM, Kris Seeburn <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:seeburn.k@gmail.com" target="_blank">seeburn.k@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div>The egyptian government is not only monitoring Social media but all communications. WHats app etc., phone..all are being monitored.</div><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div class="m_-4588607829425430533m_-3649885949221518213h5"><div>On Aug 25, 2017, at 2:48 AM, Benjamin Akinmoyeje <<a href="mailto:benakin@GMAIL.COM" target="_blank">benakin@GMAIL.COM</a>> wrote:</div><br class="m_-4588607829425430533m_-3649885949221518213m_5208941436222891701Apple-interchange-newline"></div></div><div><div><div class="m_-4588607829425430533m_-3649885949221518213h5"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Dear NCUC -African members,<br></div>I came across this and I do like to get your views on this, a recent announcement by the Nigerian military was <br></div><br><h1 class="m_-4588607829425430533m_-3649885949221518213m_5208941436222891701entry-title m_-4588607829425430533m_-3649885949221518213m_5208941436222891701gmail-mvp-post-title m_-4588607829425430533m_-3649885949221518213m_5208941436222891701gmail-left" style="margin:0px 240px 0px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px none currentcolor;vertical-align:baseline;letter-spacing:-0.02em;line-height:1.1;width:960px;font-family:Oswald,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font size="4">Nigerian Army monitoring anti-government, anti-military</font></h1><h1 class="m_-4588607829425430533m_-3649885949221518213m_5208941436222891701entry-title m_-4588607829425430533m_-3649885949221518213m_5208941436222891701gmail-mvp-post-title m_-4588607829425430533m_-3649885949221518213m_5208941436222891701gmail-left" style="margin:0px 240px 0px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px none currentcolor;vertical-align:baseline;letter-spacing:-0.02em;line-height:1.1;width:960px;font-family:Oswald,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font size="4"> speeches on social media – Spokesman</font></h1><div><br><a href="http://dailypost.ng/2017/08/23/nigerian-army-monitoring-anti-government-anti-military-speeches-social-media%E2%80%8E-spokesman/" target="_blank">http://dailypost.ng/2017/08/23<wbr>/nigerian-army-monitoring-anti<wbr>-government-anti-military-spee<wbr>ches-social-media%E2%80%8E-spo<wbr>kesman/</a><br><br><br></div><div>What do you think? Is this good for the Internet or for domain name development?<br><br></div><div>Thank you,<br></div><div>Benjamin<br></div></div></div></div><span>
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