Federico Villegas, an Argentinian ambassador who has served as president of the United Nations’ top rights body this year, insisted it is vital that the council provide guidance on the rights implications of new technologies and social media use. READ:
The council must provide guidance on the rights implications of new technologies and social media use.
The ambassador, who will address the 47-member council one last time as president on Friday when it meets to elect his successor for 2023, compared social media to nuclear energy.“Nuclear energy is amazing for energy and peaceful use,” he said, “but you can also get an atom bomb.”Social media meanwhile provides “empowerment of people for accessing information, for expressing themselves, but also hate speech, cyber-bullying,” he said.
The outgoing council president stressed that he had not followed the details of that case and did not take a position on whether expelling West from Twitter was the right decision.But, he asked, should “it be up to a private businessman to decide what is dangerous for inciting violence and hate?”
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