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Uganda wants Google to shut anti-government YouTube channels ahead of its election
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Ugandan authorities are doubling down efforts to crack down on dissent ahead of the country’s Jan.14 polls.In the latest incident, the Kampala regime has written to Google, which owns YouTube asking it to shut down 14 video channels, which the country’s media regulator says are linked to last month’s riots that left more than 50 people dead.A review of the 14 accounts by Quartz Africa shows all have either streamed campaign content or host pundits sympathetic to opposition presidential candidate and musician Robert Kyagulanyi, popularly known as Bobi Wine. He is among 11 candidates challenging president Yoweri Museveni, who has been in power since 1986.Read the rest of this story on qz.com.

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