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Whatever you choose to do, do not mess with angry Netizens

Protestors occupy Kimanthi Street during the protest against Finance Bill 2024 in Nairobi on June 25, 2024. [Boniface Okendo, Standard]

The war against Cyber-bullying suffered a huge blow last week, with protesting netizens directing their anger on rogue men in blue. While hundreds of netizens took to the streets engaging police in running battles, thousands more took to the internet sharing photos and videos of protests over punitive taxes to make sure that the message was home.

For the men in blue and their plain clothes colleagues, the anger directed towards them was unprecedented, so did business owners and churches which refused to give them refuge something manifested by Gen Z in the name of cancel culture.

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