- "if social media won't follow our laws, we should ban them"
- "I am affiliated to this party so this is ok"
- "social media bad, hence ban good"
of course the deeper issue was that the social media was banned because it helped backlash against the powerful spread. and backlash mostly well-deserved because of the objectively pro-corruption anti-press anti-people laws being proposed and passed.
In many ways, this protest and this massacre was probably step n and n+1 in the process rather than an accident:
- "if social media won't follow our laws, we should ban them" - "I am affiliated to this party so this is ok" - "social media bad, hence ban good"
of course the deeper issue was that the social media was banned because it helped backlash against the powerful spread. and backlash mostly well-deserved because of the objectively pro-corruption anti-press anti-people laws being proposed and passed.
In many ways, this protest and this massacre was probably step n and n+1 in the process rather than an accident: