Anas Haqqani, a senior leader in the Taliban, has officially endorsed Twitter over Facebook-owned competitor Threads.
“Twitter has two important advantages over other social media platforms,” Haqqani said in an English post on Twitter. “The first privilege is the freedom of speech. The second privilege is the public nature & credibility of Twitter. Twitter doesn’t have an intolerant policy like Meta. Other platforms cannot replace it.”
Twitter has fallen out of favor with many people since Elon Musk took over the company last year…The Taliban, however, seems to love it. Two Taliban officials even bought blue verification check marks after Musk started selling them in January.
Haqqani noted that the biggest draw of Twitter was this lax moderation policy…Facebook and TikTok both view the Taliban as a terrorist organization and disallow them from posting. It’s a ban that persists to this day.
Pretty funny to see a member of the Taliban espouse freedom of speech. I really doubt that
It’s just like Elons definition. To these people freedom of speech means freedom to say what they want and not be challenged by pesky things like facts.
Freedom from consequence for me but not for thee
Because facts disrupt their intended narrative. 🤡 🙄
Freedom of their speech
Freedom of speech for Muslim men and not women or infidels.
You forgot the quotation marks. It’s “Freedom of Speech.” ;)
It’s not THE freedom of speech, it’s Elon’s freedom of speech. As in, he’s free to choose what’s shared on the platform he forcibly acquired.
This is not a good look. The Taliban supporting something is never good.
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This is what I come to the comments for
A handful of years ago, US Republicans were losing their shit over Muslims and the Taliban, basically saying they were the biggest threat. I’m honestly waiting for them to realize that their views are almost completely aligned with the Taliban’s. Both against abortion and LGBTQ rights, both want religion in schools and to get rid of the separation of church and state, etc. It doesn’t at all surprise me that Republicans and the Taliban have the same preferred social media.
Just like how people you can’t stand the most just subconsciously remind you of yourself, republicans can’t stand the taliban because it’s like looking in a mirror for them.
People who fully agree can still hate each other. Maybe even more likely too since they occupy the same social niche.
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It makes no sense but it makes sense to the general public. When it ceases to make sense to the general public, it will be seen as you and I see it. I’m not holding my breath until the general public figures this out. You really can’t fix dumb and uneducated. It’s what politicians count on. Your dumb and uneducated vote manipulated by key terms thrown out there and reproduced in whatever media you like and is willing to send to you.
That’s because they’re both authoritarians.
It’s the same reason Tankies hate Nazi’s when they’re both essentially the same thing in practice despite their economic outlooks being opposite. Authoritarianism is authoritarianism, everything else is just a different flavor.
Christian authoritarians think they’re good and muslim’s sharia law bad, but in reality they’re just two religions trying to force their shit on everyone else. They physically cannot see that it’s the same because to them it’s “morally correct” and therefore not authoritarianism.
Funnily enough they also endorsed Trump before the 2020 election.
They support only the best.
Twitter, the only social network endorsed by the Taliban and caturd! What’s not to love?
I’m surprised the Taliban want to be associated with something so toxic.
Well, it depends on what do you wish for Twitter.
It’s the Taliban, the appropriate action is to ignore everything they say because they’re religious extremists who commit violent actions against random citizens of their own and other nations.
I they said Twitter was bad and endorsed Threads would you still give a shit? lol
The Taliban were one of the first groups to condemn the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
This is some !nottheonion@lemmy.world stuff
Sweet. Thank you for the link! Is there an ate the onion community out there yet?
I’m new to Lemmy and have my account on Aussie.zone. Do I need to register an account on the lemmy.world instance for that link to work? I’m using the Connect app on Android if that helps.
Nope, your app should be able to send you there by clicking that ID. If it isn’t, then that’s likely a feature that is still being implemented (it’s the equivalent to r/subreddit on Reddit).
Btw in case you haven’t noticed, you’re already commenting on a Post from lemmy.world, so no, you don’t need a separate account.
Nice little nugget there, thanks.
“Two Taliban officials even bought blue verification check marks after Musk started selling them in January”
I am dead
Truth is often stranger than fiction.
So funny, haha.
Twitter: The terrorist’s choice.
The slogan of the century.
I remember back around 2012-2013 ISIS using twitter to post gore videos and twitter was lazy asf about dealing with it
social media sites give 0 fucks about properly moderating anything but popular euro languages
At the time Facebook fueled a genocide in Myanmar they had practically no moderation for Burmese content, if I recall correctly.
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I always figured Twitter was working with the US government by keeping those accounts open, helping them track location and whatnot.
Probably.
Terrorists like Elon Musk. That seems like his plan.
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They are basically the same group. Except Christianity has a higher body count.
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Camelot?
Hahahaha this is genuinely HILARIOUS.
Thank you, I needed that.
Twitter had been like that even before Elon tho. Let’s not also forget Facebook is fine and dandy with ISIS and other extremist groups
That should be a good thing in your view tho, no? Aren’t you the one defending the presence of extremists into online platforms? Shouldn’t Facebook and Twitter allow and even put under the spotlight these kind of ideologies?
Fuck it man, go for a full racist party then; why limit yourself to institutionalised racism when you can have ignorant racism directly?
We have that already with the left and the right. Have you been living under a rock last 30 years?
As far as I am aware the only openly racist party being allowed on social media is the alt-right (the institutionalised right on the other hand is still clever enough to keep its racism hidden behind a façade of economics bullshit).
Pray tell, which extremist left wing organisation have been supporting twitter, threads or any other social media platform?
And since you are there, can you please explain how can you post a message without using your brain?
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I am rooting for neither. This is not a lesser of two evils situation. Lemmy, Mastodon, and others do exist.
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But the real question is: which platform would Hitler use?
…not that I’d expect the answer to differ.
Twittler?
Mein Vook
Not that this changes anything but it’s worth noting that the Taliban were provided a platform on Twitter even before they took power and before even Elon acquired it.
Right now Facebook is also full of hate-speech by Islamists who circumvent hate-speech filters by writing in Arabic or Parsi, as Meta’s AI in those languages is a complete failure, very biased as it’s trained on hateful content already as laws in those countries favor hate-speech (as an example, in Saudi Arabia being an atheist is considered “terrorism” and in most MENA countries homophobic content is normal) and moderators are sourced locally and hence also very biased.
There’s a disturbing trend of big tech being comfortable hosting extremists and borderline terrorist spokespeople. And my unpopular guess is that it is obviously because the US wants the Taliban and other Islamist groups to be legitimized. Why? I’m not sure, geopolitics is totally above my pay grade. But it is clear that historically the US had no issues siding with hardcore Islamists in the MENA region and right now there is a clear trend to normalize Islamist propaganda online.
Reminder that the Taliban are still preventing girls from going to school since they took over, despite a certain president assuring us that the US isn’t abandoning Afghan women and that the Taliban have “changed” anyway, and they cracked down on female university students too.
They’re okay with it because it looks good for the bean counters and KPIs. There’s no KPI for “we removed hate speech visibility by 50%” but there is one for “we got 50 million new users from MENA on our platform to show ads to.”
Why is Facebook not beholden to the countries in which it provides service to provide the service those countries and people prefer?
Your problem is with those countries and people, not with social media.
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“We should let actual terrorists communicate and radicalize others, because there’s a block button already. PS: I’m very smart.”
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How is that hyperbole? That’s essentially what you are suggesting lmao
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Nah if that’s not what you meant you need to work on your writing skills bud.
Try to understand what you are trying to say before writing it, even if you don’t like it. That will make you less likely to be misunderstood.
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You either censor them or you let them radicalize people. There is no inbetween.
Do you see this differently?
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No need to apologize, I understand your viewpoint. I don’t understand your “Lol, nice hyperbole” comment tho.
"We should let actual terrorists communicate and radicalize others, because there’s a block button already. PS: I’m very smart.” <— Isn’t that exactly what you believe in then?
How could you possibly know that?
We are enabling them with technology they had no hope to ever develop themselves and using said technology to actively support their thuggish way of life.
Tell me you would let the women in your family live there.
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Because they are a theocratic despotic thugcracy that is why their only export is refugees and opium.
And why don’t you answer my question? Would you approve of the women in your family being sent there? Yes or no.
How does not wanting my family (or myself - not sure why you made it sexist) to live there at all relevant?
If you want the world to declare unilateral war on authoritarian despot nations I’m all for that, but as I recall that view seems to be “Imperialist.”
How do you square these feelings in your head?
Answer the question.
I wasn’t the person you asked, but I am in favor of everyone who wants to escape any authoritarian state to be able to leave.
In fact, I am for the free movement of people as a natural right, coupled with absolute open borders, defended with military force by a coalition of world governments.
I am strongly anti-authoritarian. I just don’t see how it is Facebook’s responsibility to effect change in hostile nation-states.
I’m speechless at how ludicrous this headline is. I feel like even the Onion would reject it for being too bonkers.
I mean, total clickbait article but hilarious nontheless.
This was a title I didn’t expect to read today.
Literally my exact thought
NotTheOnion
