​Social media ‘outlet’ for debate in B’ville

Bougainvilleans do not have the freedom and the right to express themselves on issues affecting their region on social media.

Now there are different kind of groups on Facebook that have pulled away from the main group “Bougainville Forum” due to new and stricter rules being applied by the group administrators.

This is especially with false identities and nicknames being used by certain members of the group to verbally attack the government of the day, the ABG.

Brisbane based contributor Josh Gardner in an email to Loop PNG in Buka said Bougainvilleans had  been suppressed and did not have the freedom to talk about certain issues that were affecting the region.

“We have a number of issues that we all need to address and we really need to question the government on, which is our democratic right apart from voting in elections,” Mr Gardner said.

“This has now prompted us to create two more new groups, Bougainville hard Talk and Bougainville untold news in which we already have a good number of members and we’re now speaking at free will,” he said.

“We all know that the Autonomous Bougainville Government doesn’t have an opposition,  that is why we really need to use the social media effectively to express our views in what we see that isn’t being done right by the government of the day,” Mr Gardner said.

Author: 
Peterson Tseraha