People should relax on this subject: “The Nigerian Senate adopted Tuesday for a second reading of a bill aimed at modifying Nigeria Data Protection ACT, 2023, to demand multinational social media companies to modify the Nigeria data protection law. The platforms, and for related questions, 2024 ”(Sb. 648), were sponsored by Senator Ned Munir Nwoko (Delta North). The bill was read for the first time on November 21, 2024. ”
“Nigeria ranks first in Africa and second in the world in the daily use of social media, but these multinational societies operate here without any physical presence,” said Nwoko. “This creates a gap in the fight against regulatory concerns, the management of content policies and the creation of local partnerships.”
The legislator described three key concerns resulting from the absence of physical offices for these platforms: a limited local representation, missed economic opportunities and legal reparation difficulties.
“The absence of a local presence creates a disconnection between the platforms and their Nigerian user base,” he said. “Resolor user complaints, respond to regulatory concerns or manage the problems of content moderation specific to Nigeria often takes more time due to geographic and cultural distance.”
What is wrong by asking online companies and in particular social media companies to establish offices in Nigeria? Yes, I understand the concern of censorship. But when you look at the situation as a whole, we must be fair for the government, and thereby hear everything you need to build world income models of the future. If Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat, etc. Think that Nigeria is an important market, we expect them to open offices so that we can obtain our tax revenues when they serve our citizens.
But if they do not consider Nigeria to be vital, they should forget us, and those local will evolve. On this one, the Senate is right. And it is not a question of freedom of expression: it is an economic affair because in the near future, where we expect companies to provide products and services by online means, nations will find it difficult to receive cross -border taxes even on the trades carried out in their fields, by their citizens. President Trump leads to this subject and I am happy that Nigeria learns.
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