Twitter, Facebook and YouTube are increasingly implementing their disciplinary policies to restrict or remove posts, which they deem to be against their policies. Lately, there have been many high profile incidents of the sort.
Former President Donald Trump was banned permanently from Twitter for supporting rioters who stormed the US Capitol. Recently, a Nigerian televangelist was banned from YouTube for claiming to cure a gay person. Then a few days ago, Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari’s account was suspended for a few hours owing to a post he made that went against Twitter’s policies. Nigeria responded to the suspension by banning Twitter in a vindictive stand that analysts say will negatively impact Africa’s tech giant.
