{UAH} WHY WASTE MONEY ON PSEUDO ONLINE ACCOUNTS?

I have never understood why some ill- equipped gov'ts in Africa, are obsessed with pseudo email addresses and accounts on Facebook. Because, even if they manage to track one's IP address, how do you know it isn't a proxy server? Most hackers or pseudo-analysts, take steps to not be so easily identified - using proxy servers, onion routing, anonymous VPN. For example, the hacking of the US Office of Personnel Management, allegedly by China, was through servers based in the States. I understand that the Russians also hacked into the US electoral system using proxies , such that it's difficult to be definite about their rigging of the elections in favour of Donald Trump. 

Facebook has recently suspended a lot of accounts deemed to be fake, or hostile to respective governments- one isn't allowed to post in groups one doesn't manage . Hon.Nambooze, myself, and a few others, have been victims. In the long term, Facebook will lose out, as more people keep losing interest in Facebook activism. A lot of money has also, reportedly, been spent to track down the person, or people ( if you believe Andrew Mwenda's conspiracy theory), behind Tom Okwalinga Facebook account.

With a third world country, I think the money they waste on such stuff, should be better be spent on building well equipped health clinics , or libraries, in various towns in the country. We are still far in technology- that's why Facebook lives, video recording and WhatsApp audios/ videos, has excited us so much. Most bloggers using videos as a form of activism, mainly use abuses- no substance, but their messages are trending more than those that just write research- based articles. People in third world hate reading.This is different in developed countries where technology has been put to much better use.

Abbey 

"In tribute to the United Kingdom and the Republic of Uganda, two bastions of strength in a world filled with strife, discrimination and terrorism."

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