"More COUNTRIES should ban Twitter and Facebook for not allowing free and open speech — all voices should be heard," Trump said.
Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday praised the nation of Nigeria for banning the social media platform Twitter, which permanently suspended Trump from its platform earlier this year.
"Congrats to the nation of Nigeria, who just restricted Twitter since they prohibited their President," Trump said in a proclamation. "More COUNTRIES should boycott Twitter and Facebook for not permitting free and open discourse—all voices ought to be heard. Meanwhile, contenders will arise and grab hold. Why should they direct great and malevolence on the off chance that they, when all is said and done, are abhorrent? Maybe I ought to have gotten it done while I was President. In any case, Zuckerberg continued calling me and going to the White House for supper revealing to me how incredible I was. 2024?"
Nigeria declared the suspension of Twitter's tasks in the country days after the web-based media monster eliminated a post from Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari.
"A considerable lot of those getting out of hand today are too youthful to possibly be mindful of the obliteration and loss of lives that happened during the Nigerian Civil War. Those of us in the fields for a very long time, who went through the conflict, will treat them in the language they comprehend," Buhari's erased tweet said, as indicated by the New York Post.
"The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, declared the suspension in an explanation gave in Abuja on Friday, refering to the determined utilization of the stage for exercises that are fit for sabotaging Nigeria's corporate presence," the country's Federal Ministry of Information and Culture said.
PRESS RELEASEFG Suspends @Twitter Operations in Nigeria pic.twitter.com/7z5BQ0Mi3U—Fed Min of Info and Cu (@FMICNigeria) June 4, 2021
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed,announced the suspension in a proclamation gave in Abuja on Friday, refering to the tireless utilization of the stage for exercises that arecapable of subverting Nigeria's corporate presence.— Fed Min of Info and Cu (@FMICNigeria) June 4, 2021