Jonathan Moyo Crushes Into Tsvangirai
10 February 2015
Media and Information Minister Prof. Jonathan Moyo has crushed into MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai’s anti social media tirade by opportunely laying into the opposition leader’s capital misfortunes.
Moyo on Monday worked himself out to cast a democratic face by campaigning for the right for citizens to utilise social media to as he said “improve their lives.”
This came at a time when Tsvangirai was battling to damage control himself out having last month slapped his party members with a ban on using Whatsapp and other social media forums to express their political views.
Wrote Moyo:
Like everyone else, I think social media are really cool as digital platforms and I acknowledge their amazing power in facilitating interactive communication beyond the boundaries of space and time and in ways that can improve lives and livelihoods. But of course every cool thing has its limits and that is particularly true of technological products.
In any event, there are some fundamental questions whose answers still remain elusive about the space and use of social media in human civilisation. The abuse of social media witnessed in fake revolutions such as the so-called Arab Spring coupled with the vulnerabilities of these media to cybercrime should give society enough reasons to be inquisitive about the virtues of social media.
Moyo on Monday worked himself out to cast a democratic face by campaigning for the right for citizens to utilise social media to as he said “improve their lives.”
This came at a time when Tsvangirai was battling to damage control himself out having last month slapped his party members with a ban on using Whatsapp and other social media forums to express their political views.
Wrote Moyo:
Like everyone else, I think social media are really cool as digital platforms and I acknowledge their amazing power in facilitating interactive communication beyond the boundaries of space and time and in ways that can improve lives and livelihoods. But of course every cool thing has its limits and that is particularly true of technological products.
In any event, there are some fundamental questions whose answers still remain elusive about the space and use of social media in human civilisation. The abuse of social media witnessed in fake revolutions such as the so-called Arab Spring coupled with the vulnerabilities of these media to cybercrime should give society enough reasons to be inquisitive about the virtues of social media.
Otherwise the bottom line that you can ignore to your own peril is that social media have become so ubiquitous and so pervasive that it is no longer possible to be relevant in any human endeavour without using them. Those who don’t use social media in one way or another and those who want to ban their use are doomed. And so it is that while I still strongly believe in the epistemological proposition that nothing beats human speech as an expression of rational communication, I have decided to not only follow social media but to also for the first time participate in them as an active contributor.
As such, I have decided to open Twitter (@ProfJNMoyo) and Facebook accounts (https://www.facebook.com/ProfJonathanNMoyo) from today and I intend to use these accounts like nobody’s business. Those phoneys out there who have been running fake social media accounts in my name should take note that their criminal game is up.
My decision to be active on Twitter and Facebook, which I had previously vowed never to use in a thousand years, has been influenced by my recent appointment by President Mugabe to head Zanu-PF’s Department of Science and Technology which has combined very nicely with a long standing push from my kids whose lives revolve around social media. Let’s get started!
As such, I have decided to open Twitter (@ProfJNMoyo) and Facebook accounts (https://www.facebook.com/ProfJonathanNMoyo) from today and I intend to use these accounts like nobody’s business. Those phoneys out there who have been running fake social media accounts in my name should take note that their criminal game is up.
My decision to be active on Twitter and Facebook, which I had previously vowed never to use in a thousand years, has been influenced by my recent appointment by President Mugabe to head Zanu-PF’s Department of Science and Technology which has combined very nicely with a long standing push from my kids whose lives revolve around social media. Let’s get started!
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please zimeye do not demonise Tsvangirai never banned Whatsapp. he said people are campaigning to oust him on whatsapp. yes it is bad to try and overthrow Tsvangirai from MDC and we only know he is the only true carder left in MDC since all have become sellouts to ZANU PF. it is bad for people to use whatsapp for a reason to overthrow Tsvangirai. especially when Jorno said the same about Arab spring. so understand social madia is good when its used for the good of the people not to de-campain our leaders.
please zimeye do not demonise Tsvangirai never banned Whatsapp. he said people are campaigning to oust him on whatsapp. yes it is bad to try and overthrow Tsvangirai from MDC and we only know he is the only true carder left in MDC since all have become sellouts to ZANU PF. it is bad for people to use whatsapp for a reason to overthrow Tsvangirai. especially when Jorno said the same about Arab spring. so understand social madia is good when its used for the good of the people not to de-campain our leaders.
Prof, I doubt whether you are having any soft spot for social media nor for any media that we the public can use for our own good. Social media has its own ways. Neither you nor your adversaries can do anything to either stop people from accessing them nor to control the media using the uncontrolled power swindled from legitimate liberators. Maybe you are thinking of bombing the so called boosters, izvozvi.
Tell him Proff. the guy is fumbling again kumele eyelima eBuhera.
Tell him Proff. the guy is fumbling again kumele eyelima eBuhera.