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"Ahead of the Ugandan election, we're hearing reports that Internet service providers are being ordered to block social media and messaging apps," Twitter Pubic Policy tweeted. "We strongly condemn internet shutdowns – they are hugely harmful, violate basic human rights and the principles of the #OpenInternet."

"Earlier this week, in close coordination with our peers, we suspended a number of accounts targeting the election in Uganda," they admitted in the following tweet, clearly not recognizing the blatant hypocrisy in their comments. "If we can attribute any of this activity to state-backed actors, we will disclose to our archive of information operations."

Taste your own medicine assholes.

"Ahead of the Ugandan election, we're hearing reports that Internet service providers are being ordered to block social media and messaging apps," Twitter Pubic Policy tweeted. "We strongly condemn internet shutdowns – they are hugely harmful, violate basic human rights and the principles of the #OpenInternet." "Earlier this week, in close coordination with our peers, we suspended a number of accounts targeting the election in Uganda," they admitted in the following tweet, clearly not recognizing the blatant hypocrisy in their comments. "If we can attribute any of this activity to state-backed actors, we will disclose to our archive of information operations." Taste your own medicine assholes.

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The only thing worse than censorship is manufactured consensus. That's the even more evil thing these companies are doing than censorship.

If I ran a country I would be very suspicious of major company's manipulating the population into believing it believes certain things.

It's an absolute threat to the will of the people being in control of a country. So if you want to have a democracy, the actions of these companies is unworkable. The real solution if you want to be anti-censoship purist (I know I do), is to use a political system that isn't fragile in these circumstances. Monarchy would be an option. Then these companies can manipulate any opinion they like. It isn't relevant to the political system.

Then anyone can say anything they want or run a company however they want, because it has no threat of throwing a fragile political structure into disarray.

As long as nations choose to use fragile political systems, certain false consensus tactics are an absolute threat to their intended operation.