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Washington Post Justifies Keeping Active Taliban Social Media Accounts Open - Drako - 08-18-2021
Here's the Washington Post justifying keeping active Taliban members and spokesmen's social media accounts open. They also suggest that Trump is worse than active terrorists.
We truly live in a society. I'm not sure humanity can sink much lower than this.
Quote:For a group that espouses ancient moral codes, the Afghan Taliban has used strikingly sophisticated social media tactics to build political momentum and, now that they’re in power, to make a public case that they’re ready to lead a modern nation state after nearly 20 years of war.
In accounts swelling across Facebook, Twitter and Instagram — and in group chats on apps such as WhatsApp and Telegram — the messaging from Taliban supporters typically challenges the West’s dominant image of the group as intolerant, vicious and bent on revenge, while staying within the evolving boundaries of taste and content that tech companies use to police user behavior.
Quote:At the same time, the ability of the Taliban and its supporters to operate substantially within the rules of companies such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube has left Silicon Valley vulnerable to intensifying political crosscurrents: U.S. conservatives have been demanding to know why former president Donald Trump has been banned from Twitter while various Taliban figures have not.
The answer, analysts said, may simply be that Trump’s posts for years challenged platform rules against hate speech and inciting violence. Today’s Taliban, by and large, does not.
“The Taliban is clearly threading the needle regarding social media content policies and is not yet crossing the very distinct policy-violating lines that Trump crossed,” Katz said.
I would much rather see mean tweets from Trump than tweets from terrorists
Source - https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/today-s-taliban-uses-sophisticated-social-media-practices-that-rarely-violate-the-rules/ar-AANsoJg
RE: Washington Post Justifies Keeping Active Taliban Social Media Accounts Open - Oni - 08-18-2021
There's a distinct possibility the US pulled out too early, and will have to deal with the aftermath. Anyone that adds to the legitimacy of the Taliban's reign should be held proportionally accountable for the results.
RE: Washington Post Justifies Keeping Active Taliban Social Media Accounts Open - d4ggm4sk - 08-18-2021
(08-18-2021, 08:57 PM)Oni Wrote: There's a distinct possibility the US pulled out too early, and will have to deal with the aftermath. Anyone that adds to the legitimacy of the Taliban's reign should be held proportionally accountable for the results.it isnt a dictatorship. banning social media accounts would also prevent right winger extremists that wants to save the USA from the leftist regime.
RE: Washington Post Justifies Keeping Active Taliban Social Media Accounts Open - Marshland - 08-18-2021
Twitter being twitter, they always had weird standards i feel like. As long as something gets clicks and earns them money they'll allow it most likely
RE: Washington Post Justifies Keeping Active Taliban Social Media Accounts Open - Oni - 08-18-2021
(08-18-2021, 09:48 PM)d4ggm4sk Wrote:(08-18-2021, 08:57 PM)Oni Wrote: There's a distinct possibility the US pulled out too early, and will have to deal with the aftermath. Anyone that adds to the legitimacy of the Taliban's reign should be held proportionally accountable for the results.it isnt a dictatorship. banning social media accounts would also prevent right winger extremists that wants to save the USA from the leftist regime.
I'm not saying the government should censor anyone, I'm saying people have a choice at an individual level what companies they support. If someone disagrees with a service's behavior, then they should do something about it. If your boss does something shitty, you're able to complain. If Twitter has a double-standard when it comes to TOS, people have the option to not use Twitter.
RE: Washington Post Justifies Keeping Active Taliban Social Media Accounts Open - Spooky - 08-19-2021
Yup the orange mans tweets are much worse than this according to the shills in the press. Get ready for the media to go into overdrive shill mode to coverup for sleepu joe’s terrible response to this crisis. Truly a mad world this is becoming.
RE: Washington Post Justifies Keeping Active Taliban Social Media Accounts Open - d4ggm4sk - 08-19-2021
(08-18-2021, 10:17 PM)Oni Wrote:(08-18-2021, 09:48 PM)d4ggm4sk Wrote:(08-18-2021, 08:57 PM)Oni Wrote: There's a distinct possibility the US pulled out too early, and will have to deal with the aftermath. Anyone that adds to the legitimacy of the Taliban's reign should be held proportionally accountable for the results.it isnt a dictatorship. banning social media accounts would also prevent right winger extremists that wants to save the USA from the leftist regime.
I'm not saying the government should censor anyone, I'm saying people have a choice at an individual level what companies they support. If someone disagrees with a service's behavior, then they should do something about it. If your boss does something shitty, you're able to complain. If Twitter has a double-standard when it comes to TOS, people have the option to not use Twitter.
democracy means that you can believe in anything and support any movement. its when they start fiddling with these things that we get left wing mob rule.