[kictanet] Your Tweet, My Right. Can a Public Figure block you from Accessing their Tweets?

Sylvia Chepkoech sylviachepkoech at gmail.com
Wed Oct 16 13:32:16 EAT 2019


Thank you for the link Liz.

It's also encouraging to see public figures like Chief Francis made good
use of social media. @GG thank you for the head's up on tomorrow's program.

Regards,

Sylvia Chepkoech.

On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 11:38 AM Admin CampusCiti via kictanet <
kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

> @GG
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> That should be interesting!
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> *Ali Hussein*
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> On 16 Oct 2019, at 10:50 AM, Ali Hussein <ali at hussein.me.ke> wrote:
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> Interesting Liz.
>
> From where I seat the answer is an emphatic yes!
>
> I however, fear that we then must take our public officials through an
> intensive course of Social and Online Etiquette.
>
> One great benchmark is Chief Kariuki of Nakuru. He has taken the use of
> Social Media to serve citizens to another level.
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> *Ali Hussein*
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> On 16 Oct 2019, at 9:02 AM, Liz Orembo via kictanet <
> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
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> Listers,
>
> A very interesting read by Tevin Mwenda,
>
> Can social media accounts of public officials in Kenya be construed to be
> channels that can be used by the public to access information from their
> elected leaders and other public leaders regarding them?
>
> Are those public officials allowed to block someone from accessing them
> when they use the same channels to interact with citizens?
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> Full article here: https://www.kictanet.or.ke/?p=40802
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> Best regards.
> Liz.
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