#25: Keyboard Warriors – using social media as a site for social justice!
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#FreeSpeak host Gwen Lister talks to youth leader Bertha Tobias and Dr. Phillip Santos, senior lecturer in the dept of communication at the Namibia University of Science and Technology (NUST), about how youth is mobilising online against socio-economic injustices. But what happens when the threat of regulation comes into the picture? Many governments look for excuses to regulate and even shut down the internet, and point to a radicalised youth abusing their free speech as the reason. So how does the youth beat back the attempts to silence dissent and use social media for the greater good?
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