The Taliban is on Twitter

[Rawtheran]

http://www.webpronews.com/the-taliba...witter-2011-05

Hmmm isn't this a surprise?

[Ben 'Teal'c would WIN!!' Noble]

Werid

[mad_gater]

just peachy....someone allowed a bunch of fundamentalist Islamist barbarians access to a computer

[DigiFluid]

Blew some stuff up LOL like a bawwws! #obl #americasucks







Yes, this is going to go great. *facepalms*

[lordofseas]

I wonder, if you follow them, does the CIA start following you? Hrm...

[jelgate]

I wonder, if you follow them, does the CIA start following you? Hrm...

A better question how long until the feds have Twitter shut them down

[Galileo_Galilee]

Oh great, now somehow this song popped into my mind:

[SaberBlade]

A better question how long until the feds have Twitter shut them down

Depends what they tweet. If they only announce the results of attacks then nothing can really be done, as it's no different to what everyone else would do. Unless they start using it for propaganda or hate speech, not sure what could happen. I doubt they'd be stupid enough to organise attacks. You can't really expect them to close it just because they aren't liked, as if that's the case I can think of a list of celebs who deserve to have theirs cut off too.

[Pharaoh Atem]

when google bought youtube google removed all the tabliban training videos from the site

#fact

[SaberBlade]

when google bought youtube google removed all the tabliban training videos from the site

#fact

They also removed a lot of Comedy Central stuff too, but they were more worried about being sued (which Viacom did, for $1 billion) than anything else. The problem with posting anything on Youtube is the fact there is always one moron ready to try it, and several others waiting to sue because of it.

[Galileo_Galilee]

That's why I won't post anything on youtube.

[SoulReaver]

A better question how long until the feds have Twitter shut them down

tali-banned?

[DigiFluid]

A better question how long until the feds have Twitter shut them down

Depends what they tweet. If they only announce the results of attacks then nothing can really be done, as it's no different to what everyone else would do. Unless they start using it for propaganda or hate speech, not sure what could happen. I doubt they'd be stupid enough to organise attacks. You can't really expect them to close it just because they aren't liked, as if that's the case I can think of a list of celebs who deserve to have theirs cut off too.

Taliban aren't American citizens, nor on American land, so they wouldn't be protected by any free speech laws. On top of that, Twitter is a private entity rather than publicly owned, so they could shut them down at any time.

Heck, Twitter might even shut them down just to avoid the bad press.

[SaberBlade]

Taliban aren't American citizens, nor on American land, so they wouldn't be protected by any free speech laws. On top of that, Twitter is a private entity rather than publicly owned, so they could shut them down at any time.

Heck, Twitter might even shut them down just to avoid the bad press.

So now we should expect the internet to policed based on what Americans don't like or because it's not protected by laws they want to impose on the Midle East?

This twitter isn't exactly new, as it turns out it's been posting in English for a few months (and even longer in Pashtun) so unless people are going to be outraged just because they've only heard about it now, they'll need a better reason to close it since Twitter have done anything so far.

[DigiFluid]

So now we should expect the internet to policed based on what Americans don't like or because it's not protected by laws they want to impose on the Midle East?

If it's an American owned and operated company, based in the United States, and subject to US law?

Ahem, duh.