Social Media Regulation: Federal Government Says Other Options Are Available - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Publisher (J.T)
November 15, 2019
The Federal Government says, apart from enacting newlaws on social media regulation, there are many options open to it.
The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammedstated this in Abuja at a meeting with the Guild of Corporate OnlinePublishers, GOCOP. He said the government could have control on technology,working with the big techies like Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, Instagram tocheck the spread of fake news and hate speech.
The Minister noted that it is premature for anyone tosay that there are enough laws already to deal with social media deviants. Hesaid the process for the social media regulation would not be a unilateralprocess because government would carry relevant stakeholders along.
Mohammed observed that from October 29, when heannounced government plan to sanitise the social media, there had been intensedebate on the issue. But he added noted that contrary to opinions from certainquarters, the planned regulation was not aimed at stopping free speech andsilencing the media.
He said Nigeria was not alone, countries includingGermany, UK, Singapore, China, South Korea, Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya, Zambiawere doing something about the social media.