Isis threatens Twitter employees over blocked accounts
Source: The Guardian
Isis supporters have threatened Twitter employees, including co-founder Jack Dorsey specifically, with death over the social networks practice of blocking accounts associated with the group.
In an Arabic post uploaded to the image-sharing site JustPaste.it, the group told Twitter that your virtual war on us will cause a real war on you. It warned that Jack Dorsey and Twitter employees have become a target for the soldiers of the Caliphate and supporters scattered among your midst!
You started this failed war
We told you from the beginning its not your war, but you didnt get it and kept closing our accounts on Twitter, but we always come back. But when our lions come and take your breath, you will never come back to life.
Twitters terms of service explicitly ban direct, specific threats of violence against others, and the company has followed YouTube in proactively shutting down Isis-related Twitter accounts, with the aid of the UKs counter-terrorism internet referral unit.
Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/mar/02/isis-threatens-twitter-employees-over-blocked-accounts-jack-dorsey
KeepItReal
(7,769 posts)whenever content and accounts are found on their behalf.
Renew Deal
(81,889 posts)ladjf
(17,320 posts)If they were "lions" they wouldn't feel the need to wear masks and disguise in public.
randome
(34,845 posts)[hr][font color="blue"][center]There is nothing you can't do if you put your mind to it.
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Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)Remember Ebola?
Remember Iraq?
Remember the last snowstorms?
840high
(17,196 posts)Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)They were less fearsome a year ago, before 6000 Airstrikes and the Kurds mobilized, not to mention Iran, but not near as media savvy.
Then former members of the Iraqi army psych-ops now with ISIS got to work...and found a willing victim in Western "fear media"....they sure hit the mark.
Like Ebola, like Iraq, half the story is what is being told, zero history to put it all in context.
Folks are still not thinking the mass media is reliable, are they?
Historic NY
(37,457 posts)isn't that what the NSA switch was for.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)easily turned off. America values freedom of speech too much to turn any off, foreign or domestic, friend or foe.
Panich52
(5,829 posts)While SCOTUS has decided swearing in public is covered by 1st Amend, yelling 'fire' in a crowded theater is not. The reason: public safety.
While I like to believe no one should be censored, civil society cries for 'hateful, disruptive...' outbursts to be muffled. ISIS' propaganda certainly may fall into that category. Fox aided their cause by not editing their vids. (But they do pander to tge purient. I suppose they'd like TX to air executions.)
ISIS has a right to be heard, but not necessarily on everything. A blanket censorship is, for me, going too far. But that assunes that they can express their view without inciting violence. By their nature, is that possible? (ISIS isn't the only mid-East group Twitter blocks: I've tried posting from an Irani media org and not been successful -- and they were an opposition group.)
BTW, mid-East volitile rants aren't all that should probably be muffled. Extremist RW 'Christians' here also incite violence on their sites. While the net shouldn't be subjected to censorship, law enforcement should have better tools to prosecute rants whose intention is to incite violence. Unfortunately, providing those tools leads to that damn slippery slope.
Bottom line: it's up to responsible outlets to monitor what they carry. While a blanket block seems overreaching, it's playing it safe.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)Free speech must include any and all Hate Speech, no matter the source...???
I disagree.
I draw the line at ISIS.
KeepItReal
(7,769 posts)Heck, even a local news station managed to shut down a major ISIL Twitter propagandist.
What are the US Intelligence Agencies tasked with doing about ISIL's online activities?
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)war?
Independent Navy Vet
(3 posts)Isis wouldn't even exist if Bush didn't lie about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Every thing in the middle east is directly Bush and Cheney's fault. The US wouldn't even be there if it wasn't for oil.