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Taliban Endorses Twitter Over Threads (www.vice.com)
submitted 1 year ago by NevermindNoMind to c/technology
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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.

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[–] obinice 43 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hahahaha this is genuinely HILARIOUS.

Thank you, I needed that.

[–] Shardikprime 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] FabioTheNewOrder 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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?

[–] Shardikprime 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We have that already with the left and the right. Have you been living under a rock last 30 years?

[–] FabioTheNewOrder 1 points 1 year ago

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?