Tag: #SocialMediaBlackout

S/Africans boycott high data costs protest as #SocialMediaBlackout trend

Jun 22, 2017

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by

Ediri Oyibo

in Internet

South Africans have boycotted a call to skip social media use for a day to protest against high data costs, which has ironically seen #SocialMediaBlackout trend on twitter. Musician and activist Ntsiki Mazwai had urged South Africans to log off and not buy data to pressure mobile providers, according to a BBC report. “Data costs…