Kobby Kyei is an award-winning blogger
Award-winning blogger Kobby Kyei has said the government needs to regulate social media use in Ghana.
He proposed a two-pronged approach involving both censorship and support.
“How are we going to mute the people disturbing the community and the nation, and amplify those who are doing positive things?” he asked during an interview with Nana Romeo on Okay FM.
Kyei expressed concern over how difficult it is to gain attention through positive messages.
“Why is it so? It’s because when someone insults another, it goes viral,” he lamented.
He emphasized, “It is up to us as a community, leadership, and nation to instruct the social media platforms to mute people based on what they post. That is the bigger picture of the conversation we need to have as a country.”
The PR executive urged Meta and other social media companies to promote individuals involved in technology, mathematics, creative arts, and philanthropy—people who contribute to projecting Ghana’s creative space economically and socially and who help empower the nation.
Kyei recalled an incident involving “a minister I won’t name, who asked Google and WhatsApp executives to block people from watching his daughter’s leaked sextape.” He emphasized that if “an individual of wealth and power” could achieve that, then a government could do even more.
He also challenged the Ghana Education Service (GES) to incorporate social media etiquette and digital literacy into the school syllabus, “just as it’s been done abroad.”
