Keyamo<\/a> said activists, who oppose the bill seeking to regulate social media should stop blocking people that irritate them on such platforms.<\/p>\nHe said, \u201cThose so-called overnight social media \u2018activists\u2019 who oppose the Social Media Bill should first stop blocking those who irritate them with insults, unblock all those they have blocked and apologise to them.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can\u2019t be intolerant and ask others to be. Practice what you preach.<\/p>\n
\u201cSome cannot differentiate the Social Media Bill from the Hate Speech Bill.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhilst no reasonable person will support death sentence for hate speech, you can\u2019t come online to say something totally untrue that can put other lives in danger without some kind of penal consequence.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe real agitation should be for parliament, in line with S.36(12) of the 1999 constitution to clearly define the types of false and insensitive posts that would attract penal consequences, so that government doesn\u2019t abuse it. But to leave everyone to just post anything is unacceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Minister of State for Labour and Productivity, Festus Keyamo, has said that there must be consequences for people, who post “insensitive” contents on the Internet. Revealing his support for the Hate Speech Bill in a series of tweets on Monday, Keyamo said activists, who oppose the bill seeking to regulate social media should stop blocking […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":4423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,30],"tags":[297,219,1189],"class_list":["post-18386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","tag-keyamo","tag-labour","tag-minister-of-state"],"yoast_head":"\n
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