> foreign values

Not even foreign values. Only subset of foreign values which are only shared by the Silicon Valley. Beyond that, half the US people disagree with Google/Apple/Twitter/Facebook’s non-neutral stance on politics, who weighed their full weight in censoring 50% of the political spectrum.

I will not call it the pied piper because Uganda weighs nothing, but the GAFA’s politics are now visible as directly harmful in USA, with calls to leftist violence given full platform since 4 years while censoring the 50% rest of the political spectrum, and any country who lets them operate their ideological platform is doomed to live through the Congress event again.

Good one, Uganda.

Maybe Uganda (and other countries) will start thinking about replaceing US-run social media with home grown solutions.

Given that open source and federated replacements for Twitter[1], Instagram[2], Reddit[3], YouTube[4] etc exist, this would not be a massive undertaking.

1: Mastodon, https://mastodon.social/about

2: PixelFed, https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed

3: Lemmy, https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy

4: PeerTube, https://joinpeertube.org/en/