Media Debate: Should Ghana have an exclusive social media censorship?

Social Media has become the world’s greatest platform for social interactions, which has broken down many physical boundaries of nations. People that you, otherwise, would not have known have now become your friends through social networking. Despite all the goodwill, social media is fast becoming a platform for perpetuating some of the ills in society. There have been reports of fraud, rumour, false propaganda and in recent times, the recruitment of people especially teenagers into the camp of terrorists. It is feared that if unchecked, social media can spin out of control.

In order to prevent its citizens from visiting these social media platforms, countries like China have put restrictions on the use of some social media sites. Whether this is good or bad for democracy does not really count here since China is a communist state.