However, as I had told my fellow Gedo section kin before, I think things have changed with regards to how we use information;
There is a guy on here who puts "Bon/Boon Marehan" into search engines and copies and pastes gazillion pointless hits from that.Guys, this isn't the old days where our little remote message boards was invisible and insular.
I write a topic (RANDOMLY MIND YOU) about something that didn't take me more than a second without any serious thought to it---
---and literally the NEXT DAY Abdirahman Abdishakur is weaponizing it on Twitter to thousands of Somalis after a conduit for NEGATIVE INFORMATION WARFARE (Hi Mr. Roble from Wardheernews) "stole" it and completely hijacked it.
https://www.somalinet.com/forums/viewto ... 6&t=399263
Secondly, I have never shared this because the only reason to have done so would be "faan," but I will share it now for relevance.
I have come multiple instances where information that I have sourced was used to affect equity in Somalia.
I mean I am completely irrelevant to how the information was used, but....the information was SOURCED by me.
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This is why I have said a lot of times recently that I will "post" something, but I continue to drag my feet.
That's because I have started to understand, ESPECIALLY NOW WITH EVEN YOUR SOMALI GRANDPA AND GRANDMA ON TWITTER ----that with great power, comes great responsibility.
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We have to be careful about how we use information going forward.
I have decided it can't be the old reckless way of responding to invisible nobody in a remote forum.
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So guys let's be more judicious about how to use information within the Somalia reconciliation context.
That guy is harmless. It is literally PG next to my ability to intrinsically know how to weaponize information.
So as you can (or can't) understand, an ability to be aware of my ability to weaponize information probably means my self-awareness is developed enough to question the ETHICAL value of my contribution to information warfare, even sub-consciously (as I have taken to stopping myself from hitting "send" after every post and instead come back to it for a second look).
With regards to the SYL information or 1956 elections, it may OR MAY NOT be important, the purpose of my pointing it out was exactly that it was a PROBLEM THAT NEEDED ADDRESSING.
However, I have felt reluctant EVEN TO POST the problem because of the possibility that it would be immediately spread across the internet by way of twitter and it would result in nothing but contribution to division and discord.
I have also realized that no matter how much I may like to think we all are equal to our post-colonial heroes, that everyone's guy is more THEIR GUY if they are clansmen.
So even innocently pointing out something can be used to affect clan relations depending on the blood ties involved.
In any case, I have not been able to find an answer to my question.
This means the question is still deserving of an answer (and that answer could very well possibly be INNOCENT---the point is I need an answer myself).
If the HW brothers on this forum are able to agree on 1 person, I am willing to share that information in the hopes either they might be privy to an answer or are able to forward it to someone like Mohamed Haji Ingiriis provide an answer.
I would like to share it the most with Abdiwahab but Sahal seems to be more connected on the ground, but in any case it's up to you guys to agree and forward 1 person.