The international community, not individual businessmen like Twitter chief Elon Musk, should determine how to make social media a force for good, the outgoing head of the UN Human Rights Council said Thursday.
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.
"Nuclear energy is amazing for energy and peaceful use," he said, "but you can also get an atom bomb." "Who will decide this? Elon Musk?" Villegas asked, pointing to the new Twitter boss's recent decision to kick rapper Kanye West—now known as Ye—off the platform "for incitement to violence" over a posted picture showing a swastika interlaced with a Star of David.
He pointed to how a Belgian journalist helped spread propaganda over Mille Collines radio inciting to hatred and violence in the lead-up to the Rwanda genocide.
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