Former U.S. President Donald Trump has hailed the federal government’s ban on Twitter, saying it was a victory for the people of Nigeria and a needed check on the excesses of social media giants.
Trump also said he wished he had taken a similar measure when he was banned from the micro-blogging platform in January.
He called on other world leaders to take take similar measures against Facebook, Twitter and other big tech players.
Congratulations to the country of Nigeria, who just banned Twitter because they banned their President.
More COUNTRIES should ban Twitter and Facebook for not allowing free and open speech — all voices should be heard. In the meantime, competitors will emerge and take hold. Who are they to dictate good and evil if they themselves are evil? Perhaps I should have done it while I was President. But Zuckerberg kept calling me and coming to the White House for dinner telling me how great I was. 2024?” Trump said in a statement issued Tuesday night.
Trump’s approval is coming days after Nigeria suspended Twitter last Friday. The government made the decision days after the microblogging platform deleted President Muhammadu Buhari’s ‘civil war’ tweet for violating its abusive behaviour policy and several calls by Nigerians to take it down.
