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AbrahamG:
--- Quote from: Humble Narcissist on September 18, 2021, 07:40:46 AM ---That's because he was probably 30 years old in college.
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Lmfao
Primemuscle:
--- Quote from: Dos Equis on September 17, 2021, 06:55:30 PM ---Did you miss this? Twitter has not banned the Taliban.
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A lot can change in a month....that was August 18th. However, the four men listed in the article appear to have some presence on Twitter at least in name. None of the associated accounts appear to be posting inflammatory comments, except some responders remarks....although, I don't speak or read Arabic, Dari or Pashto, so who knows what they post in their native language. The negative remarks appear to be coming from English speaking people. I am intentionally not posting links to the 4 listed Twitter accounts. If someone is interested in reading them, they can find them on their own.
Seems as if removing/banning them is easier said than done. The clips below are from a Times article published August 19, 2021
-The social media companies, following government guidelines, have largely designated the Taliban as a terrorist organization and don’t allow Taliban content on their sites.
-Representatives for YouTube and Facebook said they forbade Taliban accounts and removed them when they were found. Twitter, which said this week that it prohibits glorification of violence on its platform, didn’t respond to a request for comment.
-Facebook and YouTube removed the accounts of a Taliban spokesman, Mohammad Naeem.
-When Facebook this week blocked the WhatsApp account of Zabihullah Mujahid, a Taliban spokesman, he distributed a new, still active WhatsApp account of another Taliban leader to journalists.
-The Taliban were also easily evading being found by changing the spellings within their hashtags or key terms, and using encrypted apps.
-Many of the new pro-Taliban accounts have been careful to post content that does not openly espouse violence or hate speech, which would violate the companies’ rules.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/18/technology/taliban-social-media-bans.html
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