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Is Social Media Becoming A Slaughter Slab For Jungle Justice?
By
Shehu Bashir Esq.
The event of the recent times call for a debate on the need for social media regulation. This is getting out of hand. People are mistaking defamation for activism. Activism or investigative journalism comes with assertion of truth and integrity. Anything to the contrary will negate whatever cause of credibility anyone might be projecting.
Why do we have so much false narratives everywhere. A smart and intelligent activist should know how to narrate even a sketchy detail without making himself legally liable. We cannot continue to allow all these pseudo activists gaslight the system and incite violence against the nation.
Why would anyone want to turn every opportunity of personal grievance against an entity to a national issue. What would anyone gain from shooting the nation into crises?
Some people will just sit down somewhere to malign other people without fact or verifiable evidence. Social media accusation now does more harm to the innocent than legal conviction. Even when the innocent is acquitted of any legal liability, it is always very difficult for the innocent to wash off such paint of defamation.
When an accusation is brought before the social media “court”, before you know it, everywhere is in flame, calling the innocent all manners of names and calling for the head of the wrongly accused.
It is often difficult to reclaim or redeem a dented image notwithstanding any retraction from the defamer. Not even judicial exoneration or award of damage against the defamatory agent can undo the damage entirely.
Indeed, social media is becoming a “slaughter slab” for jungle justice.
The time to regulate social media is now. The unregulated freelance podcast where garrulous people go to make inciteful statements, say all manners of things should stop. The indecent exposure of people’s private videos and pictures, the “anything goes” bloggers who enjoy fabricating false stories just to trend and make money is too dangerous to be condoned.
Some skit makers are becoming tormentors rather than content creators. The waves of abuse of people’s privacy, and exploitation of the vulnerabilities of helpless individuals is not what any society should condone. Nobody should be making money or gaining fame at the expense of others.
Unverifiable identities on social media handles with pseudo names across the networks is a danger to the collective peace and mental wellbeing of everybody. We need to address this and tackle it now.
This, I think is the right thing to do without necessarily taking away the right of the citizens to the freedom of information and expression.
May God help Nigeria, Amin.
GOD IS HERE.
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