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Is Twitter Aiding and Abetting Terrorism?

Posted by timothy on from the xerox-is-next-and-then-faber-castell dept.

wiredmikey writes with word (and the following extract from a CNN report) that "Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, director of the Shurat HaDin Israel Law Center, sent a letter to Twitter on Thursday asserting that the company is violating U.S. law by allowing groups such as Hezbollah and al Qaeda affiliate al-Shabaab to use its popular online network. ... In her letter, Darshan-Leitner noted that Hezbollah and al-Shabaab are officially designated as terrorist organizations under U.S. law. She also cited a 2010 Supreme Court case — Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project — which upheld a key provision of the Patriot Act prohibiting material support to groups designated as terrorist outfits."

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  1. Didn't they kill Rachel Corrie? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Spitting on an American girl? Dude, they ran over an American girl with a bulldozer for protesting the Israeli bulldozing of homes.

    I mean spitting is b-a-d m-kay, but they killed thousands upon thousands of Gazan's and Lebanese, and the girl who was spat on may be American, but they've killed quite a few of those too.

    But hey, yeh the spitting, yeh, bad.

  2. Double standard? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Israel should also be a terrorist organization after all they invade sovereign nations and mistreat anyone who isn't jewish... there.

    Go ahead call me a troll but you know it is true.

  3. Re:Can't argue that Nitsana is wrong by siddesu · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You can't argue that the gun isn't to blame for the death of the person who got shot with it in much the same way.

  4. Re:So how would I comply with this law? by cowwoc2001 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    It's not difficult to notice Facebook pages or Twitter accounts broadcasting pro Al-Qaeda or Hezbollah messages. Heck, half the time they link to the official web pages of those terrorist groups. Take that and combine it with the fact that trusted organizations should be able to flag suspected accounts and it shouldn't take much for an ISP to act on it.

    If the RIAA can flag *songs* to be removed, why is it so unthinkable that trusted organizations should be able to flag *terrorists*? If you believe that you've been unfairly flagged, provide counter-proof to the ISP and/or take it up in court. If you're on a terrorist list, getting delisted from Twitter is the least of your problems.

    Any little bit we can do to help rid the world of these extremists the better.