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
Freedom of their speech
This is not a good look. The Taliban supporting something is never good.
What? No! That's fine. Here, have a delicious and refreshing can of Wolf Cola!
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.
Twitter, the only social network endorsed by the Taliban and caturd! What's not to love?
This is some !nottheonion@lemmy.world stuff
Sweet. Thank you for the link! Is there an ate the onion community out there yet?
"Two Taliban officials even bought blue verification check marks after Musk started selling them in January"
I am dead
“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.
I know it's the Taliban but I cannot believe how braindead they are. They don't even remember that they're so anti free speech, they'll hunt down and kill dissidents especially women who have the guts to get an education.
The taliban and Musk share the same values, then - to both of them, free speech means "you can say anything, as long as its what I like".
See also: The CIA award for excellence in journalism.
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.
Terrorists like Elon Musk. That seems like his plan.
But the real question is: which platform would Hitler use?
...not that I'd expect the answer to differ.
Twittler?
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.
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 may seem surprising, but Parag Agarwal, the Twitter CEO before elongated muskrat had a history of supporting isis views from his old tweets (there was a whole news article on it that has sadly been deleted). Really twitter CEOs have been fucked up politically since the beginning.
The Internet is a mistake.
So I read threads google play store reviews and most of them are bots. I think meta is using bots to hype threads downloads and stupid media might have taken money from zuck to post the news. Influencers and celebrities are definitely paid to use threads and the sheeps follow.
This is so sad that it's fucking hilarious. Now we have social media competing for the fucking worst human beings on the planet to join their platform. It just goes to show how being an evil asshole is profitable. 😼
Do they also drink Wolf Cola?
Twitter: owned by Saudi Arabia, endorsed by the Taliban. Great new tagline!
Ah, yes, I was waiting for the Taliban to tell me which one of these two online clusterfucks to start using.
I'm surprised they even care about Twitter, wouldn't they want to be underground?
Why endorse a social media app? What kind of war are they fighting
The Talliban accusing a company (Meta) of having intolerant policies is perhaps the most insanely hypocritical thing I've heard. I love it! "They don't tolerate our intolerance"
Two Taliban officials even bought blue verification check marks after Musk started selling them in January.
Isn't it illegal to take money from terrorist organizations?
"Twitter doesn’t have an intolerant policy like Meta. Other platforms cannot replace it.” -- if your brain shutdown at this point as well, I'd like to welcome you to... if your brain shutdown at this point as well
Have the Taliban considered self hosting a Mastodon instance?
Wow. When you've lost the Talaban who do you have, really?
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