Otago Daily Times

Solomons to ban Facebook

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Sydney: The Solomon Islands is planning to ban the use of Facebook for an indetermin­ate period after inflammato­ry critique of the Government was aired on the social media platform, the Solomon Times reported.

The Government, led by Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare, told Reuters it would soon issue a formal statement on its decision.

If the ban goes ahead, the Solomons will join only a handful of countries around the world, including China, Iran and North Korea, to actively restrict the world's biggest social networking platform.

Facebook is hugely popular for discussion in the Solomons with its population of around 650,000 spread out over a sprawling archipelag­o. The government also uses Facebook to broadcast speeches by the prime minister and to disseminat­e health informatio­n. — Reuters

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