{"id":68338,"date":"2022-06-26T09:38:46","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T07:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/?p=68338"},"modified":"2022-06-26T09:38:46","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T07:38:46","slug":"deactivating-kenyas-toxic-trolls-one-step-at-a-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/deactivating-kenyas-toxic-trolls-one-step-at-a-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Deactivating Kenya\u2019s Toxic Trolls One Step at a Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Written by Umamah Bakharia\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(0, 0, 0)\" data-ogsb=\"rgb(255, 255, 255)\">Amid the growing number of online trolls in Kenya, a mother launches a cyberattack of kindness.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(0, 0, 0)\" data-ogsb=\"rgb(255, 255, 255)\">Concerned about her kids growing up in Kenya\u2019s toxic cyberspace, banker-by-day Marjoline Kirima decides to launch an online kindness campaign.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(0, 0, 0)\" data-ogsb=\"rgb(255, 255, 255)\">She founded the End Cyberbullying Association with dreams of making the online world safer.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"68339\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/deactivating-kenyas-toxic-trolls-one-step-at-a-time\/0_tg-xuegzbycewiwg\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/0_TG-XUEGZbYCEWiwG.png?fit=1280%2C985&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1280,985\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"0_TG-XUEGZbYCEWiwG\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/0_TG-XUEGZbYCEWiwG.png?fit=300%2C231&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/0_TG-XUEGZbYCEWiwG.png?fit=1024%2C788&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-68339 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/0_TG-XUEGZbYCEWiwG.png?resize=300%2C231&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"231\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In a discussion on cyberbullying in Africa with <em><strong>Radio Islam<\/strong><\/em>, Kirima says the issue of trolling is quite dire in Kenya.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Its quite a bit thing and it does not matter who is a target, it can be a child, it can be an adult,&#8221; says Kirima. She adds that there was a time when the Kenyan president had to deactivate his account as he has getting severely cyberbullied.<\/p>\n<p>The campaign, &#8216;Be Kind&#8217;, promotes a culture of kindness at schools, and communities, online and offline. &#8220;We aim to make compassion a social norm amongst people in the community,&#8221; says Kirima.<\/p>\n<p>She says that the lack of information about cyberbullying is one of its main causes.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, Kenya has a cyber crimes bill that has not been received very well by the public as they argue that it limits the freedom of speech. &#8220;Its a middle ground, most people want it because it will help to curb cyberbullying but then a line has not be drawn on what exactly is cyber bullying,&#8221; says Kirima.<\/p>\n<p>She reiterates that there is a lack of information about cyberbullying in Kenya.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Deactivating Kenya\u2019s Toxic Trolls One Step at a Time by Radio Islam International\" width=\"1080\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F1294532197&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxheight=1000&#038;maxwidth=1080\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Umamah Bakharia\u00a0 Amid the growing number of online trolls in Kenya, a mother launches a cyberattack of kindness.\u00a0Concerned about her kids growing up in Kenya\u2019s toxic cyberspace, banker-by-day Marjoline Kirima decides to launch an online kindness campaign.\u00a0 She founded the End Cyberbullying Association with dreams of making the online world safer.\u00a0 &nbsp; &nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68339,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4996,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa","category-latest-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/0_TG-XUEGZbYCEWiwG.png?fit=1280%2C985&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pc0QIf-hMe","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-16 16:00:13","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}