In April a new forum that promised to offer Kenyans a free speech platform appeared online.
That time it had only less than 20 users. Currently the forum has over 1200 users with over 5000 conversations.
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‘It has really grown’, said one user. The forum gained over 500 users in a month after its launch, according to a blog post.
The 2bonge Forum, whose motto is ‘Sema Yote’ or ‘speak freely’ came into prominence after the Twitter purger where a couple of big and influential accounts were suspended.
2bonge has the following categories: Politics, News, Book club, Religion, sex and relationships and sports among others,
‘Users that are active and reach 1000 points, should notify the admin so as to get a verification badge’, says a post by the admin of the site.
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Kenyans on Twitter starting this morning run a hashtag in praise of the forum as an alternative to news dissemination and conversations even going into the 2022 elections.
In the age of censorship, forums like 2bonge.net will come in handy to continue the conversation.
Here are some of the tweets we sampled.
https://twitter.com/ItsEmmah02/status/1180792169340264453?s=19
https://twitter.com/Nichonasri1/status/1180791663565914112?s=19
The rights to freedom of opinion and expression grant all people the right to express themselves, and to seek , receive and impart information through any medium
#2bongeForum— __ BISIERI __ (@PurityBisieri) October 6, 2019
https://twitter.com/CisNyakundi/status/1180785600049360896?s=19
Many people have been afraid to express themselves on social media in the recent past due to the high suspension rates and shadow banning. This is the reason why alternative ways for people to express themselves are coming up and #2bongeForum is one of them. pic.twitter.com/EG98gHqlZ0
— Dhahabu Kenya (@dhahabumedia) October 6, 2019
https://twitter.com/naiblogger/status/1180784256215388160?s=19
To Join Kenya's fastest-growing forum #2BongeForum and secure a place in the next face of Independent social media click here 👉👉https://t.co/GHM1z7d5X4
— Edward Genesis™ (@EKmwanzo) October 6, 2019
